Also, if you're going to play with the new Debian, "Lennie", in Sun's Virtual Box, remember you will have to install linux-headers and build-essential, before the guest additions will install correctly.
Interesting -- Debian by default gives you Gnome ... which boots up in VBox, but with a message about a kernel error. After I installed KDE and booted back up into it, there was no error message ... That's all I've had time for, so far. t. On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:40 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > I just discovered that one does not need to match the VBox Guest > Additions version with the VBox version. That is, even if one is > running an earlier version of VBox, one can still install the latest > Guest Additions. This is enormously useful as I have several versions > of VBox installed across different versions of Ubuntu, Windows, and > Mac OS X. This allows me to setup a VM in Ubuntu 7.10 with VBox > 1.5.x, give it to friends to test on WinXP with VBox 1.6.6, and > eventually deploy on OS X with VBox 2.1.2, or any combination. > > Regards, > - Robert > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
