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Guest Additions stopped working for me after a VM restart.
I saw this post and figured it would solve my problem. But the instructions there, here, and here all do not work for me.
I've mounted VBoxGuestAdditions.iso on my VM, installed VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe, and rebooted so I can utilize the shared clipboard.
I checked that Devices->Shared Clipboard->Bidirectional is set correctly.
Why is it still not working?
On top of everything else, it seems that installing guest additions disabled my ability to rescale the VM (the Host+G option is grayed out in the View menu)
Matt
Posted 2016-02-11T15:14:29.883
Reputation: 101
First of all, the documentation is not out of date, your copy of VirtualBox is out of date. The current version of VirtualBox is 5.0.14. Second, the "Devices" menu is only available from the console of a running VM, you don't show a screenshot of that. – heavyd – 2016-02-11T15:22:06.780
Great point. I've mounted the .iso in the VM, run the installer, rebooted the VM, and still can't share my clipboard. On top of that, now I can't auto-scale my display with right-ctrl+G – Matt – 2016-02-11T15:42:07.340
Are the guest additions recognized (From the console, Machine -> Session Information, Runtime Information tab) and the same version as the host? – heavyd – 2016-02-11T15:48:30.277
Runtime attributes->Clipboard Mode = Bidirectional – Matt – 2016-02-11T15:52:34.553
on my copy that menu option is available even if Guest Additions are not properly installed. Please see my previous comment to check if the host recognizes the guest additions. (Also note that for me "Auto-resize Guest Display" is disabled when additions are not installed) – heavyd – 2016-02-11T15:54:44.083
I'd post a screenshot in a comment if I could, but my last comment was after checking the Runtime information you mention. I can also see
Guest Additions = 4.3.32. Maybe it's a version issue? – Matt – 2016-02-11T15:58:30.300It may be, although as long as Host and Guest are using the same version I would think you'd be ok. – heavyd – 2016-02-11T16:06:11.820