Error installing Guest Additions

[ptoye]

I'm a VBox and Linux newbie, so please be gentle.
I need to install a Debian-derived guest into a Windows 10 host - that installation went OK. But I also want the Guest Additions, and ran into problems. I looked at the HOWTO page and mounted the ISO image virtual CD OK and then did an apt-get to install missing bits (most were already there). That all seemed to work.
I tried

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sudo ./autorun.sh

but got an error message:

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Linux guest additions installer not found -- try to start them manually.

So I tried

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sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

and it said

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This system appears to have a version of the VirtualBox Guest Additions already installed....

But I can't get the clipboard to work (hence the typos in my reporting) - is there anything else I need to do? I've rebooted the guest.

[_johnny]

You have to also enable the shared clipboard in your virtual machine settings page. (Settings -> General -> Advanced)

[mpack]

Please post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip, and attach the zip here.

[ptoye]

You have to also enable the shared clipboard in your virtual machine settings page. (Settings -> General -> Advanced)

Should have said - I'd already done that.

It seems that the VBox clipboard software isn't running properly in the guest. A helpful techie on the guest software site showed me how to get it running, so I'm sorted now. Would be good to know why, though.

[ptoye]

Please post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip, and attach the zip here.

As I said in my reply above, I'm sort of sorted now. But here's a log. If you have the time, it would be good to know what's happening, and maybe make the clipboard startup automatic.

[scottgus1]

t seems that the VBox clipboard software isn't running properly in the guest. A helpful techie on the guest software site showed me how to get it running

It might be useful to us to know what the techie said & did, too. Could you please let us know?

[ptoye]

t seems that the VBox clipboard software isn't running properly in the guest. A helpful techie on the guest software site showed me how to get it running

It might be useful to us to know what the techie said & did, too. Could you please let us know?

Run the command

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/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard

I'll put this into my startup sequence. The helpful person didn't know why it wasn't automatic in the first place.