Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04(Jaunty) and Virtualbox video driver for X(Guest Additions)

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:17:01 +0000

Dude I just did your step by step and I had to change this line to
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86/amd46.run --target /vbox
Where I put a space in between target and /vbox. I honestly don’t know why I had to do that but thats what worked for me. I then went through the rest of your installation without a hitch. I installed Linux Mint 7 Gloria on Ubuntu 9.04 host with vbox

By: rock

rock — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:32:20 +0000

Great, it’s worked. Thank you.

By: Loy75

Loy75 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:18:28 +0000

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By: MAC

MAC — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:52:16 +0000

¡Thanks! worked fine!

By: threeRd

threeRd — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:19:20 +0000

Thanks! That did the trick!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:46:07 +0000

If you are running older than VB 2.2.2 you will get that error, you can then upgrade your VBox to 2.2.2 then reinstall the Vbox drivers using the .run without any additional commands (must sudo still), I had to remount the disk at the command line along with doing the normal install.

after reboot everything was fine.

By: Winston

Winston — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:44:01 +0000

David,

I am running VB 2.2.2 on Leopard. So I am not sure if upgrading to VB 2.2.2 will fix your problem or not; however, I am going to assume that it couldn’t hurt to upgrade to 2.2.2.

Perhaps some other Members here can shed some better insight into your question.

If you do happen to upgrade to 2.2.2—please let me know if that fixed your problem. Because, this summer I will be installing VB on my Windows box.

Cheers!

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:29:02 +0000

Also,
I’m using Virtualbox 2.1.4 on XP-SP3 as host with Ubuntu 9.04.
Had some issues with Virtualbox 2.2.0 and had to not only un-install but had to do a system restore to the day I installed Virtualbox. Just noticed new version 2.2.2, this might fix the problem?

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:17:56 +0000

This is what worked for me, it had to be in the following order (/1 being the directory I created):

sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run --noexec --keep --target /1

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:39:42 +0000

Thanks! Saved me hours of trying to figure out what happened after my upgrade from 8.10…

By: greg

greg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:06:54 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I love you and I want to have your babies (but will need a small operation first)

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:15:01 +0000

Hey ya’ll,

I forgot to mention that I am using the Ubuntu 9.04 *.ISO which I downloaded on the 24th of April, 2009.

Also, when you are editing the “install.sh” file; I had to change the following: “1.6.*” TO “1.6.0″ b/c my “X -version” said “1.6.0″.

Hope this is helpful for anyone who was having similar issues.

Cheers!

By: dude

dude — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:31:30 +0000

Thank you thank you! I wouldn’t have figured this out in a million years

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:17:02 +0000

Hey ya’ll,

I used the following command in order to get the package to expand:

./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run --target /home/winston/Desktop/GA/ --keep --noexec

Where “/home/winston/Desktop/GA/” is the location of the folder where the extracted files were to go. I also had to enter the command as root (by entering “sudo su” in the terminal).

Please let me know if I have misworded anything.

Cheers!

By: thierrybo

thierrybo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:27:04 +0000

oops, I spoke too soon. If the video problem is solved, the copy/paste between guest/host does not work anymore for me

By: thierrybo

thierrybo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:56:35 +0000

With the official Jaunty release and Vbox 2.04 OSE running on my Intrepid host, the easiest way is to install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils package as stated in the first post. It simply works, no need to deal with extracting/editing anything.

By: Joao Milasch

Joao Milasch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:09:29 +0000

Amazing, everything is working… Thanks!!!

Chester, what I did was to create a vbox folder under my user’s directory:

mkdir /home/milasch/vbox

Then I did:

cd /media/cdrom (after mounting the cd of course)
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run --target /home/vbox -keep --noexec

it was there… I think probably you aren’t mounting the additions cd correctly.

So all you have to do is to click under Install Additions to Guest, and if ubuntu didn’t mount automatically for you you have to:

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Thats it!

By: C Chester

C Chester — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:23:05 +0000

Thanks for the reply frenchmustard.

I copied and pasted your command in the terminal “sudo ./VBoxlinuxAdditions-86.run –target ./vboxtmp –keep –noexec” without the quotes and got command not found.
I also tried “sudo ./VBoxlinuxAdditions-x86.run –target ./vboxtmp –keep –noexec” as well without the quotes and got the same error because I saw that was the name of the file.

I did this in terminal mode but not inside the virtualbox do I need to be inside the virtual box to run the command?

Thanks for any more help.

By: frenchmustard

frenchmustard — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:56:31 +0000

C Chester. The problem is that the command as written simply changes the directory for the temporary files. It till runs and then deletes the files. You should use the following command ,

sudo ./VBoxlinuxAdditions-86.run --target ./vboxtmp --keep --noexec

this will

1) create a subdirectory called vboxtmp under the current directory and will unpack all the files into that directory.
2) Keep them by not running the cleen up routine.
3) Not execute the install.sh script

You can now go into ./vboxtmp and edit the install.sh file. I would change 1.6 to 1.6.* just in case.

Note that the run file name may be different depending on your target architecture. Mine was obviously 32 bit x86.

By: gosc

gosc — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:07:30 +0000

Great solution. Thank U