VirtualBox 2.1.4 with Jaunty and Guest Addons
March 18th, 2009 | Published in FYI | 15 Comments
Seems that there is an issue with VirtualBox Guest Addons and Jaunty. The VirtualBox video driver will not install with the latest release of X. So what I did was extract the .run file:
# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-*.run --target fooThis will extract the binary file into the directory foo. Once that is done I go into the foo directory and edit the install.sh file.
# cd foo/ # vi install.sh
Instead of using vi use your preferred text editor. Next thing you want to do is search for the number 1.6. In vi, that would be /1\.6. Once you have found that, you will see something like 1.5.99.* | 1.6 ). Change the 1.6 to 1.6.0, save the changes, exit out of your text editor and then run the install.sh file:
# sudo ./install.shThis should now go through and install the guest addons so you can have good video graphics instead of the 800×600 vesa garbage. Hope this helps people. Thanks to those on IRC who helped figure this one out.
Edit: Someone just pointed out THIS LINK to the VirtualBox forums that states the same exact thing.
March 18th, 2009 at 21:57:57 (#)
Thank you for this post. My recent alpha-6 installation completely borked after adding Guest Additions. If you don’t mind I might pass on this fix and give you the proper credit.
March 19th, 2009 at 05:59:50 (#)
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March 19th, 2009 at 06:41:37 (#)
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March 20th, 2009 at 14:11:11 (#)
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March 20th, 2009 at 16:22:59 (#)
Perfect, thank you.
March 29th, 2009 at 02:22:59 (#)
This was amazing! Thank you so much
March 30th, 2009 at 00:22:32 (#)
I can’t even get Jaunty to boot on VirtualBox (2.1.4).
Every time I try to install, it just loads up a LiveCD session when it’s done installing. When I then try to load up off the hd, it just sits there chugging away. Same issue with Kubuntu. Was able to install Intrepid without any issues…
April 2nd, 2009 at 16:31:03 (#)
Great help. Many thanks. Now works like a dream
April 7th, 2009 at 16:23:51 (#)
Most excellent! Thank you so much for this!
April 29th, 2009 at 03:29:38 (#)
Great!
Worked fine on intrepid amd64 host and jaunty 32bit guest.
Thanks very much!
April 29th, 2009 at 15:57:12 (#)
It worked like a charm, thank you!
April 29th, 2009 at 17:01:59 (#)
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April 30th, 2009 at 00:04:55 (#)
[...] nixternal » VirtualBox 2.1.4 with Jaunty and Guest Addons Seems that there is an issue with VirtualBox Guest Addons and Jaunty. The VirtualBox video driver will not install with the latest release of X. So what I did was extract the .run file: # sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-*.run –target foo [...]
July 18th, 2009 at 09:30:46 (#)
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