On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 05:40:34PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > I keep getting the following warning in a pop-up window when I start > VirtualBox:- > > The virtual machine execution may run into an error condition as > described below. We suggest that you take an appropriate action > to avert the error. > > The image file '/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' is > inaccessible and is being ignored. Please select a different image > file for the virtual DVD drive.. > > Error ID: DvdOrFloppyImageInaccessible > Severity: Warning > > I'm running VirtualBox 6.0.14 on xubuntu 19.10. The above error > occurs when starting both a Windows XP and a Windows 7 virtual > machine. > > Why is it looking for the guest additions ISO there? I downloaded and > installed it in the usual way from the Oracle web site so I don't > quite understand this error message at all. > Oops, sorry, I've realised the problem. I moved my Linux installation to a new hard disk and the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso was left on the old hard drive. Copying it across to /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso has fixed the error message. So the file *should* be there, that's where installing it puts it.
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