- #INSTALLING VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS CENTOS 7 HOW TO#
- #INSTALLING VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS CENTOS 7 INSTALL#
It is worth noticing that my host OS is macOS 10.13.6 and that I updated the kernel of the machine a few days ago to kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64.rpm but it didn't help until I upgraded VirtualBox.
#INSTALLING VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS CENTOS 7 INSTALL#
Steps to install are written in the TL DR section above. Recently I came across an update of VirtualBox whose additions seem to have fixed the issue, there were some blogposts I read about modifying the /etc/modprobe.d/nf file and overwriting it with “options vboxvideo modeset=1", a thing which I didn't try because I didn't have the time to experiment back then, but today, just with a simple update of the Guest Additions it all started to work like a charm.
Re-install VirtualBox Guest Additions in the guest OS to match the new versionĪcross the years I've installed CentOS in its different versions into VirtualBox to test new software as it allows you to have a sandbox to play with and to return to a snapshot you took (Remember to take snapshots before playing around with your machine) in case your system ends up cluttered or even broken (Been there, done that).Īll of the VMs that I've used with CentOS have worked just fine except for one thing, auto-screen resizing does not work.
#INSTALLING VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS CENTOS 7 HOW TO#
This is a short post describing how to get the screen auto-resizing working in a CentOS 7 VirtualBox guest OS VirtualBox is an open-source cross-platform virtualization software which allows you to run multiple guest operating systems (virtual machines) simultaneously. VirtualBox CentOS 7 Guest Auto Screen Resizing
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