On 05/19/2015 09:30 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 07:39:17PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: >> Doing HostKey+d says it was unable to insert the guest additions, >> and asks me if I want to force a umount. I say yes, but nothing >> happens. > Do you have another iso or is your host's physical dvd-rom drive > attached as your guest's dvd-rom drive? If yes, then either eject it > from inside the guest, or set the guest's dvd-rom drive to empty in the > guest settings in virtualbox before booting the guest. If you're going > to be inside the guest's settings to change the media the guest sees > anyway, then you might as well insert the guest additions iso right > then and there. > > Greg I was able to load the additions, but they do not self install. I had to manually mount /dev/sr1 (which contained the iso file for the additions), cd to the mount point and run the shell script VBoxLinuxAdditions.run to install the additions. However, this did not relieve the problems I mention with respect to the mini drop down menu, the clipboard and the networking.
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