uninstall virtualbox guest additions ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11.

sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant.

Go to System settings → Software and Updates → Additional drivers.Download and install Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.At the end I came to conclusion to write up a guideline for others to suffer less that I did.Īnyhow, to resolve the problems you have to following the below steps, I searched on the net and found other people have the same problem. I was unable to change resolution and that drove me nut. The first issue I have noticed was the screen resolution in Ubuntu.

Secondly, Ubuntu did a great job with version LTS 14.04, however it makes life tremendously difficult for those who want to have it in VirtualBox and cost me to waste many hours searching and trying to figure out solutions for below explained issues. First don’t buy Dell laptop at all no matter what is the specification and how cheap it is, you can read more about my complaint in this post.

Uninstall virtualbox guest additions ubuntu 14.04