Install Virtualbox Guest Additions Mac

  
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I am trying to copy contents from my host machine to a guest machine, but for copying I need to install the Guest additions disk.

Or there is there another way to access host machine content on the guest machine or vice-versa?

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Guest Additions are available for MacOS starting with VirtualBox 6.0.

Installing:

  1. Boot & login into your guest macOS.
  2. In VirtualBox UI, use menu Devices Insert Guest Additions CD image..
  3. CD will appear on your macOS desktop, open it.
  4. Run VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg.
  5. Go through installer, it's mostly about clicking Next.
  6. At some step, macOS will be asking about permissions for Oracle. Click the button to go to System Preferences and allow it.
  7. If you forgot/misclicked in step 6, go to macOS System Preferences Security & Privacy General. In the bottom, there will be a question to allow permissions for Oracle. Allow it.

Guest Additions bug

  1. As of VirtualBox 6.0.10 there's still a bug where Guest Additions fail to start.
  2. Test if you're affected
    1. Run in terminal:ps aux grep VBoxClient
    2. You're not affected by bug if you see a line like
      /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox Guest Additions/VBoxClient -f
    3. If you're not affected, skip remaining steps in this section.
  3. Disable SIP to be able to edit system service files in next step
    1. Close all VirtualBox windows. Otherwise, settings in next step will be overwritten by VirtualBox.
    2. Edit your VM's .vbox file, adding these lines under <ExtraData> XML tag:
      <ExtraDataItem name='VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/LUN#0/Config/Vars/0000/Name' value='csr-active-config'/>
      <ExtraDataItem name='VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/LUN#0/Config/Vars/0000/Uuid' value='7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82'/>
      <ExtraDataItem name='VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/LUN#0/Config/Vars/0000/Value' value='bytes:dwAAAA'/>
    3. Boot your macOS again.
  4. Add workaround for VirtualBox bug
    1. In terminal, run:
      sudo nano '/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.additions.vboxclient.plist'
    2. Under <array> tag, add these lines to the end:
      <string>-l</string>
      <string>/tmp/VBoxClient.log</string>
    3. Save your edits and reboot macOS.
    4. Again test ps aux grep VBoxClient. If line is still not there, make sure you made no typos in previous step.
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Guest additions are not available for Mac OS X. You can get features like clipboard sync and shared folders by using VNC and SMB. Here's my answer on a similar question.

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I've the same problem, and by 'try and fail' method I have the steps to install the guest additions on a MacOS guest:

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  1. insert the guest additions cd
  2. open the cd on file manager
  3. double click on VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg
  4. the installer opens, the clic contine
  5. next screen to set location of installed files, only press install
  6. your password can be asked a couple of time while installing, writeit and continue
  7. this is the tricky part, on my installation, macos show an messageabout the driver created by oracle won't be installed because asecurity issue, it has the option to enable it, so click on thebutton to open security screen and click on the allow button next tothe oracle software listed at bottom of the security settingswindow, it will ask your password again. Meanwhile the pkg installercontinued as if it has permissions and will say 'install finished',but I don't believe it so, once I unlocked the oracle driversinstallations I repeat the whole process from step 3, and in thesecond round all installs without asking more than the firstpassword to install.

And it is done!

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You can use SSH and SFTP as suggested here.

  1. In the Guest OS (Mac OS X), open System Preferences > Sharing, then activate Remote Login; note the ip address specified in the Remote Login instructions, e.g. ssh user@10.0.2.15
  2. In VirtualBox, open Devices > Network > Network Settings > Advanced > Port Forwarding and specify Host IP = 127.0.0.1, Host Port 2222, Guest IP 10.0.2.15, Guest Port 22
  3. On the Host OS, run the following command sftp -P 2222 user@127.0.0.1; if you prefer a graphical interface, you can use FileZilla

Replace user and 10.0.2.15 with the appropriate values relevant to your configuration.

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Have you tried https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html which has step-by-step instructions to help you?

  1. Make your VM bi-directional for Clipboard and Drag & Drop
  2. Share folders from your host to the guest VM too.
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