Re: unstable and vbox additions

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:33:38 +1300
Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> wrote:

> Migrate to virt-manager,spice and KVM.
> 
> vbox is broken and unsupported.
> 

For those of us using debian on virtual box, and using unstable, the problem is fixed in the 4.3.7 guest additions iso

The necessary iso is here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.7-92075.iso

and even though most people who are using this know the following magic, I had a heck of a time tracking it down, so here it is :

# wherever the ISO file is located

cd /usr/share/virtualbox/
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disk
sudo mount -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions.iso /mnt/disk
cd /mnt/disk/
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run