Category Archives: virtualbox

VirtualBox Guest Additions 4.2.16 fails to update on Ubuntu 12.04

Ran across the following error when attempting to update VirtualBox Guest Additions on an Ubuntu 12.04 guest (Windows 8 host) from version 4.2.12 to 4.2.16: Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components …fail! The installer fails to remove the following two symlinks. If you execute the following commands (as root) and then run the installer…

Setting up a VirtualBox host-only network for Cuckoo Sandbox

Edit: November 3, 2016. This post was originally written for Cuckoo 0.4.2. It is still current for the latest release candidate (2.0-rc1). The purpose of this post is to guide you through setting up host-only networking using VirtualBox for Cuckoo Sandbox. Using this method you can have multiple analysis machines running on the same server…