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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions in Debian

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions in Debian - Linux Tutorial

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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions in Debian

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- [Instructor] If you're using Debian in VirtualBox, you can add some software called Guest Additions to make the experience a little nicer. Guest Additions let you set the screen size to be a bit larger and they provide some other nice features. Many other distributions have support for them out of the box or don't require them to be installed. But because Debian doesn't ship with any non-free software, the parts and pieces of the Guest Additions that are owned by Oracle don't qualify for being included, so we need to take the time to build and install them ourselves. And doing so introduces us to a few sysadmin tasks and tips that may help you out in the future. You don't need to install the Guest Additions in order to follow along here. But if you'd like to, let's take a moment and go through that process. It can be a little bit intimidating if you're not familiar with the command line, so bear with me and we'll get…

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