virtualbox guest additions problem, ububtu-17.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:40:44 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>Before, when there were 2 editions
>
>[1] run the latest VBox: either the latest one with your OS, or the
>latest downloadable version.

It's better to use the Oracle version instead of the distro's version,
even if the term "OSE" might be obsolete.

The virtualbox package of a distro at least has got a different
dependency list (even if those should just be build dependencies)
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox/
than the binary from the Oracle homepage
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ , let alone that a
distros package could be patched [1].

If a distro builds from source, it easily adds additional issues to
those from upstream [2]. There's a difference for release model distros
and rolling releases. A release model distro could freeze at a working
version, while a distro following upstream provides the latest version.
If you don't use the latest version, you could ensure that the version
is stable for your distro, but OTOH you at least risk security issues,
"1 ignored security issue in wheezy" -
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virtualbox .

If the host should be Arch Linux, Ferdora, Suse, Foobar, it doesn't make
sense to install the guest editions from the guest repos. The guest
additions should be installed from the host repos or downloaded
from the Oracle website and fit to the host version.

Some kind of container anyway might be a better approach to _run_ one
Linux distro from within another distro. Using a VM to do this could be
useful to test upgrades etc., but for real usage a container might be
the better way to go.

I still wonder which host OS is used by the OP and why the OP wants
to run it in a VM instead of a bare metal multi boot or a container.

[1]
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cd /tmp/
[rocketmouse at archlinux tmp]$ asp checkout virtualbox
[snip]
[rocketmouse at archlinux tmp]$ cd virtualbox/trunk/
[rocketmouse at archlinux trunk]$ ls -hAl
total 108K
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1.2K Sep 15 03:12 002-dri-driver-path.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1.5K Sep 15 03:12 003-ogl-include-path.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  872 Sep 15 03:12 005-gsoap-build.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  737 Sep 15 03:12 006-rdesktop-vrdp-keymap-path.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  348 Sep 15 03:12 007-python2-path.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  698 Sep 15 03:12 008-no-vboxvideo.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1.2K Sep 15 03:12 009-glibc-2.26.patch
[snip]

[2]
For example:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50120