On 10/02/14 14:31, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
I've never done an VBox installation on a Windows host, only on Debian hosts. Following the manual at <https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html> always worked for me. In Debian, installing the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso *on the host* allows you subsequenly to select the Guest-ISO in your virtual optical drive (in VM Manager --> Storage). After starting the VM, this drive gets mounted at /media/cdrom, where you find the script VBoxLinuxAdditions.run.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
The one thing that I ran in repeatedly was not following the manual where it asks to make sure to have DKMS installed *before* the guest additions ;-(
Also, don't mix official Debian packages and downloaded *.deb from the virtualbox.org site.
-- Klaus