On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:24:12 -0700 Larry W <[email protected]> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Right now I'm struggling with the most annoying thing about > > Virtualbox - getting Guest Additions installed. You can set up shares > > for your guest OS so it can see your home folder and whatever you > > want it to see, but the shares are not visible to the guest OS until > > Guest Additions are installed. And Guest Additions requires an ISO > > from Sun. And when you download it, it goes into the Desktop. But > > Virtualbox never looks in the Desktop for the ISO and there is no way > > to tell it where to look. Gaaah. > > Well, when I needed to install Guest Additions for XP, I choose it from > the menu. The ISO mounts and autostarts. I've not tried with a > non-Windows guest, but I would expect the ISO would be made visible by > the server. You can also mount the (any) ISO as a CD. The problem I am having is that the Guest Additions ISO must be in the guest OS's filesystem, specifically either /usr/share/virtualbox/ or /usr/lib/virtualbox/additions/. The installer can't find it anyplace else. If the guest OS is windows the ISO can be on a CD if the CD drive is mounted in the guest OS. Then all you have to do is run the EXE on the CD drive. But Linux requires the ISO in the above folders. At least, I think that is correct. My first problem is that I have the ISO in my home folder. But I did not at first realize that it was the ISO for installing Guest Additions for a Windows guest OS. When I tried to copy the ISO off the CD to /usr/ ... etc... in the Hardy virtual machine all I could see was various files on the CD, not an ISO. The files were things like setup.exe - in other words, I had the Windows Guest Addtions. I have been googling all over trying to find the ISO or whatever is needed to install Guest Additions when the guest OS is Linux. So far no luck. And that makes me think my assumptions must be incorrect. I did install Guest Additions for my two Windows guest OSs using the same CD. Still struggling trying to figure out how to install Guest Additions when the guest OS is Linux. Oh, and yes, I could probably just get access to ~/ with a Samba share but, 1) Samba is buggy and a PITA and, 2) I may need to run OOo in the guest OS for quite some time and it would be awesomely easier if the guest OS can just automount my home folder and, 3) I have never understood Samba worth a damn and, 4) I really don't need any more computer challenges right now. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
