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I am using Virtualbox to try out a number of Linux Distros. All of the major distros I have installed worked perfectly as guest systems. VL installs fine and I love the speed of it but I cannot install the guest additions to make it work a little smoother. In a terminal I change to root privileges and run the ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run command however, I keep getting an error message that says:
bash: ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

I am using Virtualbox 2.0.6 on an XP box and Vector Linux 5.9 Standard Gold.

Since I have successfully set up numerous other Linux Distros, it isn't the virtualbox configuration. So, if anyone has setup VL as a guest system and successfully installed the guest additions I would appreciate knowing how it was done.

Thx

Warning guesswork.
It may be that you dont have sh in /bin try saying
sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

or
bash VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

Thanks,
I had the same problem, on with my CentOS 5.5 installation (guest).
Your advice solved my problem

Thank you

Just installed vector linux from live cd as a guest in slax as an host. It boots fine. However, although the guest additon iso has been selected, I am unable to locate the guest additions from within vector linux.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Did you actually mount the cdrom in the guest OS?

I was not able to do so until now.
Its seems that I am not used to find and mount cdrom. Usually it gets mounted automatically. I don't know why, I was looking for a folder. Here is what I have done.

root:# cd-info
cd-info version 0.79 i486-slackware-linux-gnu
Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 R. Bernstein
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
CD location : /dev/cdrom
CD driver name: GNU/Linux
access mode: ioctl
...

System : Win32
Volume : VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.10_66896
Volume Set :
vector://home/vl
root:# root:# mkdir /mnt/cdrom0
vector://home/vl
root:# mount /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

Then once in the /mnt/cdrom0 folder, I was able to install guest additions using:
root:# sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Ah, the default Linux newbee error, expecting things to go automatically on every system with autorun and such like on Windows. You've got a long way to go to really know Linux (I've come a long way but am not a complete master either). Enjoy the system, once you get the hang of it, you don't want to use anything else .