Just try to run the autorun.sh by hand or whatever installation command with whatever package there is on the CD. In that case use df to find your CD path and look into it. Might have to reboot to remove the existing CD and get the additions CD inserted with that menu option.Īlso, the autorun.sh script may fail.

For example, if you already have a CDROM in your virtual machine, it won't be able to load another CD in there. iso and autoexec's whatever needs to be done.

To install those, it should be as easy as using the Install Guest Additions.

Install the Virtual Box Tools (called Guest Additions) on your guest these tools allow your guest to communicate with the host to allow files to be written in a directory on the host. This is mainly a matter if setting up an SSH server and allowing connections for a given user. Here, I have an example of GParted where I could not install the VirtualBox tools as mentioned below. The fact is that it is all explained right here: We don't know the real values you use, and bad escaping may mangle the host, user or password, and may be the reason for the failure.I use VirtualBox and had a problem with copying files between my host (main computer on which you boot your computer) and the guests (virtual computer that you run on your host). This may or may not help with transferring a large number of files, by avoiding making a new connection each time, if this fails randomly.Īnd please consider escaping everything properly (I added the quotation marks). To the remote machine works, if you checked the firewall settings, etc.Įcho 'put $' At least provide some information under what circumstances the error happens or doesn't happen, if The 'connection refused' error in mention in (A) may have many reasons, it'll difficult to debug this by Q&A. An exit code of zero means 'ok', non-zero is an error, for the error I provoked the exit code was 1 (but other exit codes are possible, and not all errors might set the exit code).

In the shell to get the exit code of the last command. Does return an exit code at least for some errors.

Transfer file from host to virtualbox