-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:13:45AM +1100, Victor Vahe Kevorkian wrote: > The "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso" file was mounted on the Linux guest's virtual > CD-ROM drive. > through (Selecting "Mount CD/DVD-ROM" from the "Devices" menu in the virtual > machine's menu bar > and then "CD/DVD-ROM image". This brings up the Virtual Disk Manager) > So when I "Select"ed the .iso file to download the Guest Additions. > Nothing happened.
Since you're guest isn't windows, nothing is supposed to happen. What you've just done, was simply to insert the cd-rom with the guest additions into the virtual machine's virtual cd-rom drive, (I.E. you hit the virtual eject button, the virtual cd-rom tray ejected, you put the disk into the drive virtually, and again hit the virtual eject button on the drive to close the virtual tray). > > I tested the same procedure with the Windows XP VirtualBox > and easily the Guest Additions download started and installed. Like I said, the guest os in this case is windows, that's why. > > Now I read the following in the Help section: > "Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as > root: > sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run" > What does it mean change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is > mounted?HOW? You're getting ahead of yourself. Before you can do any of that, you need to actually mount the cd-rom. Remember, up until this point, you've just inserted the cd into the drive, but you haven't mounted it yet, so you can't use it. So, in order to mount the cd, from the terminal you'd type something like this: mount /cdrom That should work on most systems, and hopefully it will work on yours too. For more details, type: man mount at the terminal. Once you've mounted the cd-rom, you can then change to the directory where the cd-rom is mounted. You'd do this by typing something like: cd /cdrom at the terminal. For more details, type help cd at the terminal. > what the sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run got to do with the .iso? That line actually starts the guest additions installation program. So, typing the following should hopefully start the guest additions install for you: sudo su mount /cdrom cd /cdrom sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run Then restart your virtual machine, like the program tells you to. I am going to tell you what I told another poster here a couple of weeks ago. It seems that you don't have a firm grasp on even the minimum basics of how to use a GNU/Linux system, based on the questions you're asking. If you intend to make regular use of a Gnu/Linux system, or a unix-like system, I would strongly suggest that you read the documentation for it. Unlike in windows, you will not be able to do all that you need to do in a GNU/Linux, or a unix system by simply pointing-and-clicking your way around the visual interface. Greg > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksMc5gACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyB0lQCfbJVmy70/R4IHzGhzSyIGe1MK 10kAn2Pled3er00Wr2jCdDNTlBAZZh2M =IGEA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
