How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on a CentOS 6 minimal installation, including the required build dependencies.

Prerequisities

if you have installed new setup of centos minimal or you haven’t installed yet, you need make, gcc, kernel-devel in order to Install VirtualBox Guest Additions installation script.

yum install gcc make kernel-devel

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

Mount your guest addition

you need to be as root or ‘su’ and then type:

cd /opt mkdir cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /opt/cdrom cd cdrom ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

if you have errors, check the reason. on centos minimal, Xorg related errors are acceptable ;)

Reboot, and you’ have VirtualBox Guest Additions on Centos Minimal!

reboot