Hello Peter and all others, Peter thanks for you quick response. You write: ---- 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. -- -- You may understand that I am still a bit confused here since I have just started to play with VBox two days ago: -make sure that VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is mounted: I have got the ISO located, but mounting it where and how? I tried the File >> Virtual Disk Manager option with no virtual machine running as well as in a running machine -open a terminal and cd to /media/cdrom (or your mount point) > -type this: sh -i ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run (or the -amd64 file) with always the same result "sh: Can't open .... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run sh: Can't open ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox# cd Machines [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox/Machines# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run sh: Can't open ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox/Machines# cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox# cd VDI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox/VDI# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run sh: Can't open ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox/VDI# cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run sh: Can't open ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gngdowid/.VirtualBox# By the way, I also installed VBox on my Windows XP laptop with none of these problems. What is wrong with Ubuntu 8.04 / VBox combination? A Google search for the mouse capture problem yielded plenty of user requests for help in this respect, but still only answers which can only be understood by command line linux people I guess. Please think about us new upstarts using Linux. Cheers, Gerd -- ------------------------------------------ Dr Gerd R Dowideit 4 Atanie Crt Wights Mtn, QLD 4520 phone: 07 3468 0036 (home) phone: 07 3365 3538 (work) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
