{"id":48905,"date":"2023-02-12T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=48905"},"modified":"2023-02-12T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:32:19","slug":"virtualbox-error-when-downloading-the-guest-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/48905\/virtualbox-error-when-downloading-the-guest-additions\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox: Error when downloading the guest additions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certificate error when downloading the guest extensions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After updating VirtualBox, the software offered to ask me if I would like to update the guest extensions for my virtual machine. Fine, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Stupidly, the download also failed. Certificate error.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nVBoxGuestAdditions<br \/>\nDuring certificate dowloading: Unknown reason\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download_error_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"177\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48897\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My VirtualBox version is the new version 7.0, but the problem seems to have plagued users regularly in the past as well.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the problem was to download the ISO file manually. For all versions of VirtualBox, the corresponding <a href=\"https:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISO files are available for download<\/a> on the server.<\/p>\n<p>Here I have downloaded the one suitable for my version. We then integrate the ISO file into the virtual machine and can then install the guest extensions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download_error_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download_error_2.png 804w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download_error_2-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download_error_2-768x367.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certificate error when downloading the guest extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}