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Update VirtualBox Guest Additions
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update-virtualbox-guest-additions.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential dkms linux-headers-`uname -r`
# sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends linux-headers-generic
# Insert the Guest Additions ISO
# sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
# VERSION="4.1.18"
VERSION=`wget -q -O - 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT'`
wget -c "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${VERSION}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${VERSION}.iso" -O /tmp/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
sudo mount /tmp/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso -o loop /media/cdrom
sudo sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
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