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    Authored by Frank Sauerburger

    Install VBox 5.2 Guest Additions for CentOS 7. Make sure that the Guest Additions image is inserted and accessible via /dev/sr0.

    See https://frank.sauerburger.io/2019/03/27/install-guest-addiiations-for-centos.html

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    install-ga.sh 363 B
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    #!/bin/bash

# Quick script to install Guest Additions uner CentOS 7.
#   $ curl -fsSL https://gitlab.sauerburger.com/snippets/14/raw -o install-ga.sh
#   $ sudo bash install-ga.sh

set -ex
yum install -y bzip2 tar gcc make perl kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
mkdir -p /tmp/guest_additions
mount /dev/sr0 /tmp/guest_additions
/tmp/guest_additions/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
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