So, are you already using Vagrant to manage your VirtualBox VMs?
Then you probably have realized already how annoying is to keep the VBox guest additions up to date in your VMs.
Don’t worry, you can update them with just one command or automatically on each start using the Vagrant-vbguest plugin.
Installation
Requires vagrant 0.9.4 or later (including 1.0)
Since vagrant v1.0.0 the prefered installation method for vagrant is using the provided packages or installers.
Therefore if you installed Vagrant as a package (rpm, deb, dmg,…)
vagrant gem install vagrant-vbguest
Or if you installed vagrant using RubyGems (gem install vagrant):
gem install vagrant-vbguest
Usage
By default the plugin will check what version of the guest additions is installed in the VM every time it is started with vagrant start. Note that it won’t be checked when resuming a box.
In any case, it can be disabled in the Vagrantfile
Vagrant::Config.run do |config| # set auto_update to false, if do NOT want to check the correct additions # version when booting this machine config.vbguest.auto_update = false end
If it detects an outdated version, it will automatically install the matching version from the VirtualBox installation, located at
- linux :
/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
- Mac : /
Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
- Windows :
%PROGRAMFILES%/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
The location can be overridden with the iso_path parameter in your Vagrantfile, and can point to a http server
Vagrant::Config.run do |config| config.vbguest.iso_path = "#{ENV['HOME']}/Downloads/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso" # or config.vbguest.iso_path = "http://company.server/VirtualBox/$VBOX_VERSION/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso" end
If you have disabled the automatic update, it still easy to manually update the VirtualBox Guest Additions version, just running from the command line
vagrant vbguest
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Really fantastic plugin and simple to use : solved us a lot of time. Great work!
Thank you! I was going to start writing this exact tool, now I’ll relax and have a cocktail instead.
Anbelivable ! Not just vBox is needed but 2 more files and someone is playing hard to get vBox guestAdditon iso file ! The whole package should be accesible from official site download ! One can kill him self to find last one and then even crippled as in version 4.2.10 ! Now i have another problem version of vbox 4.-2.12 is crippled as no win can not be installed or someone has blocked win install in it ! Nothing but problems ! I don get it how can the whole net agressive advertise virtual tech but in praxiss so many problems !