Hello, Hmmmm- based on your 2 responses after my post...
Have you tried installing the latest version of VirtualBox, 2.1.4 I think it is? This is the download page, there are DEBs in there specifically for Ubuntu: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.4/ I suggest trying the latest version instead of banging your head on a wall for hours with an older version. I haven't messed with Ubuntu as guest much, but I think I have it in there. I have a bunch of guest OSes setup to tinker with. The error messages sound like the Ubuntu kernel doesn't have the right stuff compiled in to support the vbox modules, or the vbox modules don't work with the particular options in the kernel. I think I ran into this once, and the issue was resolved by upgrading to the newest VirtualBox version (I think this was with Fedora guest but not sure). As far as mounting the Guest Additions CD image, you don't have to burn it to a physical CD. Just go to the Devices menu, tell it to mount the image. The image should show up in the guest as a mounted CD. Then go in to the newly mounted CD image, and copy the files *manually* to your hard drive, and then run them from a terminal (as I mentioned in my earlier post), don't use the "Install Guest Additions" menu option from the VirtualBox menu, I haven't seen that work in Linux anyway. So I have gotten guest additions to work in *most* of the Linux and Windows guests I have used with VirtualBox, but not all. For example I can't get the vbox video driver to install in Fedora 11 beta (just recently released), but that is because it complains of unknown X server (it is likely too new, and the vbox modules don't recognize it), though the other vbox modules do install. The guest additions work fine with Fedora 10 (normal release). So again IMHO and my suggestion, install the latest version of VirtualBox, and try again, and let us know. Also note, you would want to download the latest version of the Guest Additions ISO as well (in the same directory linked above). ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
