-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:53:54PM -0400, David wrote: > On 8/22/2011 1:30 PM, JD wrote: > > That is good for the long run. > > For now, I am doing it manually. > > > You mean DKMS? It saves the time of one reboot. > > In order to compile the drivers for a fresh kernel you have to be booted > into that kernel. One reboot after install. You compile the GA drivers > and the *best* way to insure that they are installed and used properly > is to reboot again. Log-out - login is supposed to work but sometimes it > does not. > > So your path is two reboots. > > Withe DKMS you update your kernel and reboot. DKMS builds the modules > and inserts them. Linux starts. > > One reboot. > > Your choice.
Since he's running off a livecd, all this rebooting stuff is moot. The guest additions can in fact be installed and started without doing any rebooting, as long as you modprobe all the needed modules, and start all the needed services. Rebooting just makes all of this easier, and I suspect it also cuts down on the number of superfluous support tickets for the vbox team to deal with. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5SryQACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyAmfQCgtmifhyapDd1sRj9m4H69kpNp ENkAnjcj/eRqNMjePM3igEWi+H0LtUSN =mTYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
