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 Installing Guest Additions

The Guest Additions make the shared folders feature available, as well as better video (not 3D) and mouse drivers. You will have mouse integration, thus no need to release the mouse after using it in the guest and one can also enable a bidirectional clipboard.

After you booted the virtual machine, go to menu Devices->Install Guest Additions... Once you've clicked it, VirtualBox loads an ISO into the current CD-ROM, so you won't see anything happen yet ;)

Then do the following as root :

# mount /mnt/cdrom
# sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

It will build and install the kernel modules, install the Xorg drivers and create init scripts. It will most probably print out errors about init scripts and run levels and what not. Ignore them. You will find rc.vboxadd and rc.vboxvfs in /etc/rc.d (it also creates /etc/rc.d/rc.local which you can delete). To have the Guest Additions loaded at boot time, just add those to the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf eg.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa rc.vboxadd rc.vboxvfs)

Note: if the "Installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions..." message is followed by multiple "Unable to determine your Linux distribution" errors, the rc.vboxadd and rc.vboxvfs files will not be not created. The workaround is to create the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and repeat the VBoxLinuxAdditions command.

# touch /etc/rc.d/rc.local
# sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
# rm /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Note: this is already fixed in the upcoming 1.5.4 version - Virtualbox installer now correctly handles Arch's config hierarchy.