
(Do post here please, if it works too, as I haven't tried that)

Because, Software center was not updated to latest releases.Īnother solution might be, including the repo list of virtualbox in sources.list in the ubuntu. Viola, it worked! Finally, it was the old version of the virtualbox in ubuntu 12.04, that took 20 hours.Ī lesson learnt a day: Ubuntu Software center couldn't find a new version for sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1.

This will not remove your virtualbox setup files and configurations. When trying to install via terminal, it said older cannot be removed. In the it said that version 5.12 was available for Precise Pangolin 12.04LTS.ĭownloaded via firefox and kept the. I checked that the virtualbox in the host machine was 4.2.1 and that the one in the guest was latest 5.1.18. Version conflict and manual update forcing I cannot say if this could solve your problem, but this is how it worked. It said remove as it was already installed. I went to the Ubuntu software center and searched for So, I went to the terminal of host and tried sudo apt-get update I once read in a post that virtualbox installation in both guest and host would conflict each other. And that, the existing one is already a newer version. So, I tried to purge the virtualbox-dkms and try everything againīut, it showed that 0 to upgrade. It was a sign that guest additions was not installed. The option Auto-resize Guest Display was greyed out. If I click View->View Fullscreen mode it doesn't work. On reboot, it showed a couple of lines thatįAILED: Virtualbox guest addition kernel modulesįor your info, apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic dkms It showed that everything was copied and I had to reboot. So, I navigated to the so directory, and to my happiness there was an image file named VBoxGuestAdditions.iso It showed that no disk file was there on /usr/share/virtualbox/. I got nothing to update, showed that everything was up-to-date.ĭevices-> Install Guest Additions CD Image

When I tried to install linux headers apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) The source file in /etc/apt/sources.list had this (Guest OS) #Kali Sourcesĭeb-src kali-rolling main contrib non-free Now that I had installed virtualbox in host and booted into the guest OS successfully.
