Op Sunday 09 November 2008 08:47:35 schreef Dr Gerd R Dowideit: > Hello all, > I started yesterday implementing VirtualBox on my Ubunutu box to test > out various OS environments. I started with Puppy 4.1. All went fine > until the mouse needed to be captured. Clicking in the machine window > did not do it. Using the Host Key did not do it. Even downloading the > VBoxGuestAddition.iso from the running machine, it did not help. > The VBox manual is quite unclear about how to actually install the guest > addition into a specific virtual machine. I am sure I did something > wrong. But what could that be? > Well, all this is assuming that the guest addition can solve the mouse > capture problem. > Could it be that Ubuntu 8.4 has something to do with this? > Please help. > Cheers, Gerd
did worjed for me, sent by Alan Decey: > The way I get it to work is like this: > -make sure that VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is mounted > -open a terminal and cd to /media/cdrom (or your mount point) > -type this: sh -i ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run (or the -amd64 file) > > That runs the script and after a reboot & adding the vboxvideo to > xorg.conf, it works fine. > There may be better ways to do it, but this works for me. -- Peter Registered Linux user # 458207 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
