On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:27:50 -0700 Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> dijo:
> Hello, > > First- download VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO- > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.1.4.iso > > If you aren't running 2.1.4, back up in the directory tree on that site to > find the version you are running. > > Next- while your guest OS is running, in the VirtualBox menus above the > guest OS window, go to Device | Mount CD/DVD. > Browse to the downloaded ISO (in your host OS filesystem). > Poof, the CD should mount automagically inside the guest OS. > > Inside the CD should be several files, among which are- > VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run > VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run > > Copy the appropriate version to your HOME (depending on what the GUEST OS is > running not the host, the GUEST OS must be running 64bit to use the 64bit > version), give it execute permissions (chmod 777 for example), and run it > using sudo or directly as root. > You may need to install kernel headers, gcc, and possibly a few other > dependencies. > Once it is done, reboot the guest OS. I have spent several hours trying to get the Guest Additions for 32-bit Hardy guest OS installed. The host OS is Intrepid x86_64 and the version I have is virtualbox-ose 2.0.4. I downloaded the correct ISO image from the link above, burned it to a CD, mounted the image after getting Hardy running in the virtual machine, and tried to run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run. All I can get is: Verifying archive integrity ... All good <lots of dots here> VirtualBox 1.5.0 Guest Additions installation Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module ... Unable to build the kernel module. See the log file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log The install log has a lot of stuff in it, none of which make any sense to me. I can't put it all here because I'd have to type it all manually. None of the messages popped out and said "ok, dumbass, here's what you did wrong." Don't these devs know how to write error messages that users can understand? You mentioned that I might need gcc and kernel headers, and possibly other things. Well, gcc and gcc-4.2 were already installed, but I installed all the intermediate flavors as well. And I searched on "linux-headers" and installed every header for 2.6.24-23-Generic (which is what uname says is the kernel that is running). But I get the same error message. Other instructions I have found on the net say to go to Devices at the top, mount the CD image, then "Install Guest Additions." If I do that it pops up a message: Could not find the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD image file /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso or /usr/lib/virtualbox/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. Do you want to download the CD image from the internet? If you say yes, it times out after about 60 seconds. (Yes, the guest OS is connected - Firefox can go to eBay.) I put the ISO on a CD without burning it, created the above folders on the guest machine, and copied the ISO file into both of them. I still get the same error message. Just in case it was referring to folders on the host machine, I put the ISO file in both places on the host machine also. Still no luck. I should add that I have Windows 2000 and Windows XP guest OSs also, and I had no problem installing Guest Additions for them. If anyone has guest additions working for a Linux guest in virtualbox, I'd like to hear how you did it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
