Mounting the CD rom drive on VirtualBox for a RHEL 6 guest

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I'm trying to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions on my RHEL 6 guest, but when I choose the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso image from the drop down menu (.iso image for that matter) nothing shows up under /mnt/ or /media/cdrom/.

What am I doing wrong?

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Have you try:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

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As I mentioned in the comments, seems the ISO is not mounted. Here's what you can do

Ensure that the guest additions ISO is available to the host. You can do this by clicking on Devices menu -> CD/DVD devices and point to the GuestAdditions ISO file. The Guest additions is available in Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox folder

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With that mounted, type in the below

cd /media
mkdir vbox
sudo mount /dev/sr0 vbox/
cd vbox/

Now, the guest installation ISO is mounted as /media/vbox

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Run the Guest additions installer by tying ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

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