Do you have the extension pack installed? It has to be installed without virtualbox running or funny things happen. here is my script to install the extension pack. echo update VirtualBox VBOX_VERSION=`/usr/bin/VBoxManage --version | awk -F_ {'print $1'} | awk -Fr {'print $1'}` VBOX_EXT_VERSION=$VBOX_VERSION # echo Virtualbox version installed is $VBOX_VERSION and $VBOX_EXT_VERSION VBOX_EXT=`echo Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${VBOX_EXT_VERSION}.vbox-extpack` # echo File is $VBOX_EXT cd /tmp /usr/bin/wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$VBOX_VERSION/$VBOX_EXT echo y | /usr/bin/VBoxManage extpack install --replace $VBOX_EXT rm -f $VBOX_EXT