WSL Replacement with Vbox

Installing the Guest Additions on a GUI-less server

1. Start VirtualBox.

2. Start the host in question.

3. Once the host has booted, click Devices | Insert Guest Additions CD Image.

4. Log in to your guest server.

5. Mount the CD-ROM with the command sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom.

6. Change into the mounted directory with the command cd /media/cdrom.

7. Install the necessary dependencies with the command sudo apt-get install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r).

8. Change to the root user with the command sudo su.

9. Install the Guest Additions package with the command ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run.

10. Allow the installation to complete.

11. Issue the command lsmod | grep -io vboxguest

12. modinfo vboxguest

Reference

• https://gist.github.com/estorgio/0c76e29c0439e683caca694f338d4003

• https://superuser.com/questions/641933/how-to-get-virtualbox-vms-to-use-hosts-dns