On 08/22/2011 12:45 PM, David wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/22/2011 3:33 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> 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. > Yes I did notice that he appears to be running off a Live-CD. I have > seen *many* messages where users could not understand that the changes > that they made to configurations while booted into a Live-CD would not > stick the next time that they booted that same CD. > > Can you actually install the GA to a Live-CD? > > If so please tell me how that works. And how well. I have installed the live dvd to a vdi drive and as soon as I boot the vdi drive. I hope I only have to install GA once and only once.
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