VirtualBox guest additions

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VirtualBox Guest Additions provide kernel modules for VirtualBox virtualized hardware and userspace daemons for features like shared clipboard and automatic resolution setting.

Installation

Install virtualbox-guest-additions. Additionally, install virtualbox-guest-additions-x11 if you are going to use graphical environment (including wayland) in your Alpine guest.

Enabling VirtualBox Guest Additions

Start and enable virtualbox-guest-additions service:

# rc-service virtualbox-guest-additions start # rc-update add virtualbox-guest-additions boot

If you are using a graphical environment, also start and enable virtualbox-drm-client service:

# rc-service virtualbox-drm-client start # rc-update add virtualbox-drm-client default

Enabling Shared Clipboard

If Shared Clipboard doesn't work out of the box, try to run

# VBoxClient --clipboard

It might need root privileges. It was mentioned here

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