I noticed the VB OSE guest additions come pre-installed with the Live cd and also were installed to my HD installation. I also noticed they don’t work. I tried installing the guest additions from the VB .iso and that fails as well. any way to get them to work? short of a degree in Linux?
You must install:
gcc
make
kernel-source
kernel-syms
Good Luck!
Romanator
this is the error message I get…
Building the shared folder support module failed
(Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)
Installing the Window System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing
X Window System drivers.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components done
I found a pre-release version of the guest additions, VBoxGuestAdditions-r65982 on VirtualBox Forum which worked
That’s great to hear. Keep working on it.
I also encourage you to report any bugs to Bugzilla.
Enjoy!
Romanator