Install Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2

Install Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2

This tutorial will show you how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2. When installed on Virtualbox as guest machine, CentOS will need guest additions to be installed to get higher resolution, USB and shared folder supports. Install Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2 is not hard, but you will need to install some required packages first.

Steps to Install Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2
1. Add RPMForge repository to CentOS 6.2. You can read this guide to add RPMforge repository to CentOS 6.2.

Then eecute this command to install several packages required

yum --enablerepo rpmforge install dkms

Install Development Tools 

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install kernel-devel gcc
2. Install guest additions
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.22_80657
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
All those commands must be executed as root. Thanks for reading this tutorial on how to Install Guest Additions on CentOS 6.2.