On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:27:11AM -0700, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > 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.
Correct. > It would be nice > if this were to open automatically. I suppose it might be possible to write a udev rule to auto-mount a cd-rom when it is inserted into the drive. I haven't looked into this though. > 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. > That's what should happen. From memory, it will uncompress the archive. Then, it builds the modules, and installs them. I seem to recall it does one more step, but don't remember exactly what. Then, it tries to install the xorg stuff, and fails, which is normal without a GUI. > 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. > Yes, that's expected in your case. > 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. Why can't you use script(1)? > > 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'm not sure what you're talking about here. > 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. > It should look something like: none 146480664 113318376 33162288 78% /media/sf_storage Without seeing the output of the .run script, this is as much as I can help you. You seem to be running it properly, and the only error you seem to be getting is that it can't install the x stuff. > Perhaps I should just try mounting manually. Can't hurt. BTW, did you look at the output of lsmod to see if the virtualbox modules are loaded? If they are, you're most of the way there, if not all the way: lsmod |grep vbox vboxsf 40654 1 vboxvideo 12405 0 drm 207369 2 vboxvideo vboxguest 173689 2 vboxsf Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
