Your post has not been deleted - do not re-submit it. If you have met these requirements, you can ignore this comment. If this is your first time creating a virtual machine, we have a guide on our wiki that covers the important steps. Please also check our FAQ and if you find your question is answered there, PLEASE remove your post or at least change the flair to Solved. Please check Google and the VirtualBox Manual before asking simple questions. PLUS a detailed description of the problem, what research you have done, and the steps you have taken to fix it. * Whether you have installed Guest Additions and/or Host Extensions (this solves 90% of the problems we see) * Whether you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V (applicable to all hosts running 6.1 and above) and disabled HyperV (applicable to Windows 10 Hosts) * The version of VirtualBox you are using So if you have Virtualbox 4.2.10, you can only install the 4.2.10 of the Extension Pack.Īfter this, Virtualbox should notify you when there is a new update, either by doing an update of the system with the Update Manager or by opening Virtualbox when there is an update available.This is just a friendly reminder in case you missed it. I should mention that you can only install the Extension Pack to the same version of Virtualbox.

You can also find the latest Extension Pack in: Īfter you download the newest Virtualbox version, simply double click on it and the Ubuntu Software Center will take care of everything else. It should show the versions of Ubuntu like in the following image: You can find the latest Virtualbox version for Ubuntu in: Now, in the case you have some update problems with Virtualbox, the easiest solution I have found is to download the latest version from the original site. Note that the extension pack is needed if you want proper support for sharing between host and guest, 3D support, USB support and much more. You will immediately get a notification that there is an update for virtualbox or there is an update for the Extension Pack.

The pack will only update when you open Virtualbox. This however, will not get you the updated Virtualbox Extension Pack. This should get you the latest version of Virtualbox.

You can also get the same effect by doing it via the terminal: When you do a system update with the update manager, the Virtualbox update should appear.

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