Glad to see the problem has been solved. I had downloaded, and installed, the new version several times since the announcement, but had not been able to install the guest additions.
This time the installation completed However, the Help Screen still shows r84104 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: Frank Mehnert [mailto:frank.mehn...@oracle.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:23 AM To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Guest Additions Failure for Debian and Ubuntu Guests on Win 7 Tom, On Monday 18 March 2013 15:46:10 Tom Browder wrote: > For long-running VMs (Ubuntu and Debian) on Windows, I sometimes have > problems after a VirtualBox upgrade installing new guest additions. > > I will get the warning about outdated guest additions and then select > "Devices => Install Guest Additions..." and nothing happens. > > If the VB Guest Additions CD (VBGA) is mounted and visible in the VM I > can manually run the correct file and all is well. But before the > last upgrade (to 4.2.10) I had unmounted the VBGA CD and now cannot > see it. > > I have tried remounting it to the VM while it is shutdown but, after > restart and login, it isn't there. there was a packaging error with the initial 4.2.10 Windows package. It does not contain a correct Guest Additions image. If you downloaded the 4.2.10-84104 package during the weekend, please download the Windows package again. Use the 4.2.10-84105 release. Only Windows the Windows package was affected. If nothing happens when you select "Devices / Install Guest Additions" then the reason could be that the guest does not have CD/DVD automount enabled. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
