This is the userspace part of the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Together with virtualbox-kernel-addons they enable shared folders, shared clipboard, etcetera, inside your Slackware guest machines. You'll probably want to add the following lines to your rc.local: # Start vboxadd if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxadd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxadd start fi # Start vboxvfs if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxvfs ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxvfs start fi # Start vboxadd-timesync if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxadd-timesync ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxadd-timesync start fi This will load the support kernel module and will setup the network configuration for VirtualBox. You should add similar "stop" lines to your rc.local_shutdown. You might want to add /usr/bin/VBoxClient to your xinitrc file if you use a desktop environment that doesn't respect /etc/xdg/autostart or /usr/share/autostart This package is intended to be used on GUEST / VIRTUAL MACHINES running Slackware, NOT the host system.