Guest Additions

[rrobertt]

I have read several how to guides on installing virtual box guest additions on fedora 10 and they all say the VBoxAdditions should be located in the media folder, but its not there. I have tried unmounting the fedora iso and then manually mounting guest additions iso, I have also tried to automatically mount via the device menu but i cant find it. The host is win xp, and I'm using virtual box version 2.2.2 r46594. Personally I don't think it's actually mounting even though virtual box shows that it has mounted under details CD/DVD-ROM image. thanks. I forgot to mention that i also updated the kernel headers and kernel devel.

[Perryg]

If you have a desktop and clicked on install guest additions and it does not open click on unmount the cd in the machine tab and then click on install guest additions again. It should then appear on the desktop. After that just follow the install guides.

[Sasquatch]

There is a howto in the Linux Guests forum, just for this sole reason. If you searched, or even read the VirtualBox FAQ, as the Forum Posting Guide suggests, you would have found it.

[rrobertt]

I have tried both of your suggestions already perryg and sasquatch. I added kubuntu 9.04 and I am having the same problem with it.

[Perryg]

Did you run this command from the CLI?

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sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom

and then type

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cd /media/cdrom

If you did and it shows no files then you did not set it in the guest settings of VBox.
In the guest settings under CD/DVD ROM - click on CD - then ISO - select VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in the menu.
Restart the guest and run the above commands again.

[Sasquatch]

And to make sure the mount is done correctly, run the mount command without any arguments. You will get a list of mounted file systems. The one mounted as last will be at the bottom, so you can easily spot the CD.