virtualbox guest additions problem, ububtu-17.04

[Stuart McGraw]

On 09/14/2017 01:20 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:50:42 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>> I am installing Ubuntu-17.04 as a VirtualBox guest and need to install 
>> the VirtualBox guest additions.
>>
>> The instructions I've seen on the internet are all over 
>> the place in terms of what needs to be done.
>>
>> There are a bunch of virtualbox* packages in the Ubuntu
>> repository and its not clear which if any I need to 
>> install.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you should mention the host.
> 
>> (FWIW, on do-it-yourself, techie, complicated Arch
>> Linux this was trivial.)
> 
> Is Arch the host?

I mentioned it in my original post but it was at the end and
easy to miss:

| On 09/12/2017 09:50 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
| > (Host system is Fedora-23, VB-5.1.10 if that matters.)

> If so (even if not ;), consider to install the Oracle branded non-OSE
> version. I dropped the Arch OSE package a long time ago and got rid of
> recurring issues.
> 
> I'm using the tarball from AUR,
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ is an orphan, but
> 5.1.26 is still the current version.
> 
> For anything else virtualbox related I don't use virtualbox packages.
> I'm only using dkms to build the kernel modules.
> 
> FWIW at the moment I'm only using Windows 7 as virtrualbox guest, and
> run Ubuntu 16.04 without GUI in a systemd-nspawn container on my Arch
> host.

The reason for installing both Arch and Ubuntu in a VM is 
that I am getting tired of the seemingly endless breakage in
Fedora and, after 20+ years with Fedora and it's progenitors,
looking at changing to a different distribution.  So your
advice on Arch versions is helpful info if I end up with 
Arch, thanks.