Comments on: Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on VirtualBox Guests

By: eike

eike — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:54:56 +0000

Hm… this screen show up for you too?

“Are you sure you want to download the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD image from http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/3.2.8/VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.8.iso (size 33566720 bytes)?”

I dont see any point in guestAddition be stored in other website.

By: ronnystalker

ronnystalker — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:49:05 +0000

Thanks

Also, just to let you know, with my ‘WinXP host’ / ‘Ubuntu Desktop LSE Lucid Lynx Guest’ I could not work out how to use that run command. In the end I just right clicked on the VBOXADDITIONS* icon on the desktop.

Seemed to do the trick.

Just one thing: “You can always verify whether or not VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed in your Virtual Machine by looking in the system tray.”

Where is the system tray located in Ubuntu?
I can’t seem to find the answer in the docs. and i can’t see a Virtual box logo anywhere.

By: Ola

Ola — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:49:20 +0000

Do you have any idea why USB drives suddenly are not mountable in virtualbox, although I do have included myself in vboxusers group?

By: Jaan

Jaan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:28:44 +0000

For Ubuntu 10.04, you can use Synaptic to install packages virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms, virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms, virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 and virtualbox-ose-guest-utils. It might be better to use these packages instead: maybe then you can easily uninstall the guest additions and maybe then the guest additions survive kernel updates (I haven’t tried myself).

I installed the guest additions for VirtualBox 3.2.8 the way described in this article but I ran into problems: I cannot connect to the machine using SSH anymore and when accessing my Windows desktop where VirtualBox is running over Remote Desktop I have keyboard problems (Ubuntu often takes my keystroke as multiple keystrokes). So now I’m wondering how to uninstall the guest additions.