Guestaddition problem in new VirtualBox installation

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Hi,
I’ used Suse 10.3 a new installed 11.0. All the old files stayed intact. VirtualBox could find the old VM’s, but not the guestadditions. I received the following message when I start up;
*The virtual machine could not be started because the DVD image ‘/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ which is attached to it could not be found or could not be opened. Please detach the image and try again.

Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}*

If I start up, I cannot go to settings to install them. Is there a solution???

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GeckoSuse wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I’ used Suse 10.3 a new installed 11.0. All the old files stayed
> intact. VirtualBox could find the old VM’s, but not the guestadditions.
> I received the following message when I start up;
> -The virtual machine could not be started because the DVD image
> ‘/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ which is attached to it
> could not be found or could not be opened. Please detach the image and
> try again.
>
>
> Result Code:
> 0x80004005
> Component:
> Console
> Interface:
> IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}-
>
> If I start up, I cannot go to settings to install them. Is there a
> solution???
>
>
if you used the openSuse rpms there will be no “guest additions” as they’re
not open sourc’ed

you can do a “touch /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso” to create
a dummy file and the vm should start or possibly “discard” that particular
state of the vm

–
Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Opera 9.x weekly

3

Hi,
Thanks for responding. Do you mean I’ve to create an empty file with the following name; /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso??

4

I tried it and it worked, so thanks!