Ubuntu – 16.04 guest on 16.04 host – “VBoxClient: Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service, rc=VERR_ACCESS_DENIED”

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I have Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS amd64 host with Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.30-118389~Ubuntu~xenial from their repository.

I have created Ubuntu 16.04 LTS amd64 guest in VBox. Installed all updates here with aptitude. Also I installed virtualbox-guest-x11 (version 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 from multiverse repository) to guest.

After logging in to the VM I get the following notification:
virtualbox error notification

Why this happen?
Should I install the same version (5.1.30) of guest additions as host VirtualBox?

Best Answer

How I got it working for me:

My setup:

  • VirtualBox 6.0.4

  • Host machine - Ubuntu 18.04

  • Guest machine in virtualbox - Kali 2019.1 kernel version 4.19.0

Install needed packages with apt on GUEST machine

apt-get install build-essential virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms

After this, run:

VBoxClient --clipboard

Also, make sure that you have enabled Shared Clipboard from Settings>General>Advanced on the HOST machine.

Now it should be working :)

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