Dick Goldberg wrote:
You probably got that message because the CD containing the installer is not mounted. If you open the file manager (dolphin in Fedora 9 with KDE) it gets mounted automatically. If that does not work you can mount the CD manually with the following commands:Frank,I cannot find this posting on virtualbox.org. I guess I'm just stupid. Frank Mehnert wrote:Dick, On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Dick Goldberg wrote:On Thursday 24 July 2008, you wrote: I am running Vbox 1.6.2 on Windows XP SP2. I had trouble installing Solaris so I installed Fedora with all the latest updates. I cannot install Guest Additions. Every executable program returns an error message: "Couldn't display "/media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/VBox GuestAdditions.exe"." (with the appropriate .exe file name.) Obviously, I need this application to avail myself of the larger window size. I don't know if the following has any bearing on the above, or for that matter, if it makes any difference if I am using the x86 version. I downloaded VirtualBox-11.6.2-Win_amd64.msi which would not installalthough my machine is an AMD 64. Therefore I downloaded: VirtualBox-1.6.2-Win_x86.msi and had no trouble installing it. I thenproceeded with the installation of Fedora, which runs fine, as far as I can tell with the limited opportunity to check it out.You are obviously running a 32-bit Windows version on your AMD64 machine which is fine. For 32-bit Windows you have to install the x86-version of VirtualBox. To install the guest additions for your Linux/Fedora guest you have to execute sh /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root. The .exe application contains the guest additions for Windows guests. Please have a look at the user manual section 4 and section 4.3 for further details.After many tries, this is the procedure I ended up pursuing. I still have been unable to get the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run to execute -- but I will not stop trying.I still would like to get a compatible version of Solaris to download. That's what I was trying to accomplish in the first place.Can you explain a little bit more in detail what does not work? What happens if you try to execute sh /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root from your Linux guest? Note that the installation procedure for Solaris guests is a little bit different.Response is "no such file or directory" I ran: ls -al and get no return except .hal-mtab ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
# mkdir /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/ # mount /dev/sr0 /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/ Then you can execute the previous command and it should work: # sh /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.2_31466/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Hope it helps. -- Jorge Martínez de Salinas PGP key at: http://pgp.mit.edu and http://keyserver2.pgp.com Fingerprint: BB08 95C1 8E05 04D6 C3B3 D6D0 939C FD2D 8595 42A6
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