On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:39:43PM -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Hi; >> >> At first I find that I cannot get the Guest Additions iso to >> automatically mount on my VirtualBox Guest OS (Ubuntu 14.04 server >> version). Finally I am able to get it manually mounted. I then run >> the install script, which fails because it cannot find any X Windows >> components. I'd like very much to have the Shared Folders feature >> provided by the Guest Additions module. I'm running 4.1.3 version of >> VirtualBox on Mac OS X. > > Have you actually verified that you > can't mount shared folders after running the guest additions script? > If you are supposed to have a GUI on this system, then it sounds like > you might be having issues with the ubuntu install itself, rather than > with the vbox guest additions. > > Greg
Thank you for your response. > First, it is perfectly possible to get shared folders without having a > GUI. That's nice, but I don't see how to obtain the Shared Folders at this point. I don't need, or want, GUI as the purpose of this guest OS is to act as a server. First of all, perhaps it is a "feature" of the Windows Display Managers (GNOME. KDE, etc) to have the Guest Additions iso automatically mounted by the guest OS and if you aren't running a GUI on the guest OS you have to mount the iso manually. It would be nice if this were to open automatically. sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ cd /media/cdrom sudo bash -xv ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run I did not capture the failure, but the script did not exit with a nice "no WIndows components found" type of message, but it terminated abnormally. I tried the same thing today with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.04 server as a VirtualBox guest. I got the usual error of not having gcc and make, which is obvious, fixed that and it ran just fine, the script now says that "No X components found" or something like that and exits nicely. I ran again today and now I get a nicer message: Installing the Window System drivers Could not find the X.Org or XFree86 Window System, skipping. > Second, only the part of the install which installs the xorg > stuff should fail. This is normal without a GUI, and doesn't prevent > any other part of the guest additions from being installed. If you > provided more detail on what script you're running, and how you invoke > it, we might be able to help more. I wish I had been able to save the commands that I run and the output I received, but it is hard to do that from the VirtualBox guest console without the Guest Additions already installed and without any X window managers installed on the guest OS, especially when the VirtualBox host OS is Mac OS X. I see that on reboot that I am able to write to the partition on the host side (doh!); that I am able to write on the guest side (Nice!); but it seems as these are just directories that are not linked or attached as writing something on either side does not appear on the other side. I don't see any mounts displayed by df on the guest OS, even after I reboot (I did request automated mounting). I'll reboot again to see if it shows up this time. I still don't see any pertinent mount output from df after reboot. Perhaps I should just try mounting manually. Thanks, Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
