Thanks to all that replied. In the end, the hosthey+d worked in three of my virtual images so far. In one, I had become so exasperated that I deleted the CD drive from storage. It complained of that, I added an empty CD drive, and it worked fine afterwards (WindowsXP guest). In another, it complained that the files being loaded were older than the files in the guest - I said yes anyway, and it failed. Rebooted the guest, ran the guest additions install again, and all was fine (WindowsXP guest). In the third, there were no difficulties (a Windows7 guest).
It had to have been a short circuit between the chair and the keyboard. Thanks again - I'll use the hostkey+d hence-forth. Regards, Bob W -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Scott [mailto:c...@intergate.com] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:25 PM To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Extension Packs ** Reply to message from Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> on Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:01:42 -0700 > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:39:39PM -0400, Bob Wyatt wrote: > > Have uninstalled and reinstalled VirtualBox 4.2.12 with the > > extension pack... > > Still can't see how to load the guest additions in a Windows guest. > > There isn't an ISO to mount, and as I wrote below, it just adds > > .dlls and 'doc' type files in Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\Extensions\{version}. > > > > Should I be setting a share to this from the guest, and specify that > > location for driver updates in the guest? > > The 'Help' doesn't seem to address these questions... nor the > > documentation... > > > > Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide! > > > > Regards, > > > > Bob W > > The above showed up in my inbox after I sent my first reply, so > disregard that. The simplest way to mount the guest additions iso > inside the guest is to press hostkey+d. On my windows 7 home premium > host, the guest additions iso is at: > > C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso > > Greg > On my Mac I just go to the VBox menu item Devices and choose install Guest Additions. That's all there is to it. It already knows where the ISO is. Just follow the prompts as it runs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ 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=unsubscrib e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ 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
