Thank you for your patience. The missing headers were the problem. It's been about ten years since I've compiled a linux kernel so it ever occurred to me that I needed the headers.
I'm very appreciative of your help. Thanks again. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -----Original Message----- From: Kees Nuyt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VBox-users] VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Won't On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:53:05 -0400, you wrote: > Thanks for the answer. That certainly was a red-faced forehead slapper! > > Here's what just happened: > > root@debian:/media/cdrom0# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. > > Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.2 Guest Additions for Linux.......... > VirtualBox Guest Additions installer > Removing installed version 4.2.2 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... > Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. > Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done. > > Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules The headers for > the current running kernel were not found. If the following module > compilation fails then this could be the reason. > > Building the main Guest Additions module ...fail! > > (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) Did you see the diagnosis above "Building the main Guest Additions module ...fail! " ? And what does /var/log/vboxadd-install.log tell you? > Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. > > Installing the Window System drivers > Installing X.Org Server 1.7 modules ...done. > Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions ...done. > > You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just > restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions. > > Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done. > > I closed the Linux system and VirtualBox and restarted from Win 7, > but I still don't have full screen capability. There are error messages, so that doesn't surprise me. You will have to resolve them first. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp17525808 The text about DKMS and kernel headers in https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#externalkernelmodules also applies to building the guest additions kernel module. > nor Win 7 access from my Debian OS. There might be a network configuration mistake somewhere. >Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. -- Groet, Cordialement, Pozdrawiam, Regards, Kees Nuyt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscrib e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
