Re: unstable and vbox additions
Migrate to virt-manager,spice and KVM.
vbox is broken and unsupported.
-Joel
On 10 February 2014 12:49, <briand@aracnet.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Trying to install virtual box guest additions but getting
>
> "Unknown version of the X window system".
>
> I've found various fixes that involve hacking the install script to allow it to proceed but all my attempts to do so have failed. What's particularly confusing is that the script has defied my attempts to echo debug information, so it must be redirecting output in some non-obvious manner.
>
> Help ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
>
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.6 Guest Additions for Linux............
> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
> Removing installed version 4.3.2 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
> Copying additional installer modules ...
> Installing additional modules ...
> Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done.
> Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
> The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following
> module compilation fails then this could be the reason.
>
> Building the main Guest Additions module ...done.
> Building the shared folder support module ...done.
> Building the OpenGL support module ...done.
> Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done.
> You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
>
> Installing the Window System drivers
> Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing
> X Window System drivers.
> ...done.
> Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done.
>
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