Guest Additions do not load automatically in Kubuntu HH 8.04
Peter Klaassen
peterklaassen at quicknet.nl
Thu Oct 16 17:22:39 UTC 2008
Op Thursday 16 October 2008 14:36:21 schreef Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com:
> Maybe the guest additions are not installed. It works automatically for
> some OS's but I never
> had that happen in any linux distro as guest.
>
> The way I get it to work is like this:
> -make sure that VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is mounted
> -open a terminal and cd to /media/cdrom (or your mount point)
> -type this: sh -i ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run (or the -amd64 file)
>
> That runs the script and after a reboot & adding the vboxvideo to
> xorg.conf, it works fine.
> There may be better ways to do it, but this works for me.
That's it. it works. Wonderfull.
Thanks Alan and Ignazio.
In Kubuntu HH 8.04 there was no need to alter the xorg.conf.
that as done by the manual Guest Additions installation.
Shouldn't this be reported as a bug??
--
Peter
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