Maurice,

Be careful, I used VBox manager in Ubuntu and it broke the installation, I
guess using packagemanager with the right extension pack is the best bet.

Gerry

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Maurice <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-03-20 at 11:40 I said:
>
> > Once into the VM (WinXP in my case) go to its 'Devices' menu and
> > select  "Install Guest Additions".
> >     This will point to a VM file address. Just keep hitting
> > 'proceed'  whenever it asks for confirmation, and it fetches the
> > G.A. and installs them.
>
>    Yes, but simply the *previous* additions, not the latest...
>
> > (If there is a 'proper' way, I would like to know what it is...)
>
>   The proper way, of course, as now pointed out in here by Jochen, is:
>
>      (As Root):  VBoxManage extpack install <ext-pack-file>
>  --
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