Environment:
- Installed free Oracle VM VirtualBox application, version 6.1.28r
- Installed guest virtual machine with Parrot OS.
Variant 1 => using official online parrot repo
sudo su - # update packages list and upgrade packages apt update && apt upgrade -y # install virtualbox guest additions from the Parrot repo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils # install the package apt install virtualbox-guest-x11 # reboot the system reboot
Now the resize should work.
Variant 2 => using VBox Guest addition image
Now we will install Vbox guest addition using VBox option.
- Go to to the virtualbox menu “Devices” and then click on Insert Guest additions CD image
(Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image..)
2. Parrot optionally may will notify you that the CD was inserted.
3. Then open the terminal and go to the Guest Addition ISO folder. In my case the path include my login name
cd /media/palo/VBox_GAs_6.1.28/
Folder contains
──╼ $ls -al
total 46911
dr-xr-xr-x 5 palo palo 2570 okt 18 20:19 .
drwxr-x---+ 1 root root 30 nov 4 15:33 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 palo palo 763 feb 20 2020 AUTORUN.INF
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 6384 okt 18 20:12 autorun.sh
dr-xr-xr-x 2 palo palo 792 okt 18 20:19 cert
dr-xr-xr-x 2 palo palo 1824 okt 18 20:19 NT3x
dr-xr-xr-x 2 palo palo 2652 okt 18 20:19 OS2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 4821 okt 18 20:12 runasroot.sh
-r--r--r-- 1 palo palo 592 okt 18 20:19 TRANS.TBL
-r--r--r-- 1 palo palo 3991431 okt 18 20:14 VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 3949 okt 18 20:11 VBoxDarwinAdditionsUninstall.tool
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 7443891 okt 18 20:12 VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
-r--r--r-- 1 palo palo 9413632 okt 18 20:05 VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 16890808 okt 18 20:16 VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 270840 okt 18 20:12 VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 palo palo 9998016 okt 18 20:13 VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 palo palo 259 okt 4 17:48 windows11-bypass.reg
4. Run the installer
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
5. Reboot the system
reboot
6. Work