{"id":159,"date":"2009-12-05T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-12-05T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T15:54:22","slug":"installing-virtualbox-guest-additions-on-a-headless-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Installing Virtualbox Guest additions on a headless server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After updating virtualbox to version 3.1 today, I faced the problem of having to update the guest additions that come with the new version on a headless xp guest. Here&#8217;s the command line to attach the guest iso to the xp guest instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>VBoxManage modifyvm rfactor --dvd \/usr\/share\/virtualbox\/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make sure to use the correct path to the vboxguest iso file (this example is from CentOS 5.x). <\/p>\n<p>Hope you find it useful, thanks to Sasquatch  from the virtualbox forums for the help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After updating virtualbox to version 3.1 today, I faced the problem of having to update the guest additions that come with the new version on a headless xp guest. Here&#8217;s the command line to attach the guest iso to the xp guest instance: VBoxManage modifyvm rfactor &#8211;dvd \/usr\/share\/virtualbox\/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso Make sure to use the correct path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}