Ubuntu 14.10 Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

I've had reasonable results with Ubuntu running under VirtualBox by using the repository VirtualBox Guest utilities.

Install Synaptic from a terminal using:

$ sudo apt-get install synaptic

Once installed, run synaptic using:

$ sudo synaptic

Search for the package virtualbox-guest-utils and select it for installation. It will a few other packages for installation, and after a reboot it will be fine.

You can get some more up to date utils by installing from the ISO image, but this requires installing some pre-requisites first.

You can find that info here:

http://virtualboxes.org/doc/installing-guest-additions-on-ubuntu/

I haven't tested this for a while, but you need the following pre-requisite packages:

• build-essential
• module-assistant

You also need to prepare the system to build modules using:

$ sudo m-a prepare

You can also avoid rebuilding modules manually by installing dkms.