{"id":234,"date":"2013-02-06T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:37:45","slug":"virtualbox-additions-on-redhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/virtualbox-additions-on-redhat\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox additions on Redhat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Virtualbox for a lot of desktop related projects.\u00a0 Although it is not really the first choice for server related virtualization projects, sometimes you might just need to proof or test something quickly.\u00a0 Here is what I did to enable the guest additions on a Redhat server running as a Virtualbox guest.<\/p>\n<p>Note since I did not want to waste an entitlement license on RHN I installed packages from the DVD.\u00a0 Yum can do a group install for the Development tools which would be easier.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Install some compile tools:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n&#x5B;root@localhost Server]# rpm -i glibc-headers-2.5-105.x86_64.rpm libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-54.el5.x86_64.rpm gcc-4.1.2-54.el5.x86_64.rpm gcc-c++-4.1.2-54.el5.x86_64.rpm glibc-devel-2.5-105.x86_64.rpm\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Install kernel headers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n&#x5B;root@localhost Server]# rpm -i kernel-devel-2.6.18-339.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-339.el5.x86_64.rpm\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Install guest additions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n&#x5B;root@localhost VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.6_82870]# .\/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run\r\nBuilding the main Guest Additions module\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>That was it and I could use copy\/paste, better screen resolution and share files from the local host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Virtualbox for a lot of desktop related projects.\u00a0 Although it is not really the first choice for server<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}