Guest Additions Not Installing (Vista Host, Ubuntu Guest)

[mahcuz]

Hi, everyone. A new (and excited) user of VirtualBox here!

My friend turned me to VirtualBox after I began complaining that Ubuntu wouldn't connect to my wireless network. He said it'd be much easier than booting into each operating system when I needed to access information on the net. When I started using it (VirtualBox) it connected to the web, which is awesome!

Anyway, the small screen resolution is really ticking me off. I searched for a while (including a brief search of these forums), and came to the conclusion that I need to do _something_ with guest additions. Here's what I did: Logged into Ubuntu (linux guest), Selected Devices -> Install Guest Additions..., and then waited. Waited a little more. And a little more. Nada. As per my research, I believe that I am supposed to be greeted with a pop up of some kind, but I got nothing.

Is there something I am missing?

Also, when I do select 'Install Guest Additions...', the CD/DVD image is changed to 'VBoxGuestAdditions.iso'. This leads me to believe that something is happening.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time,
Mark.

[vbox4me2]

How about reading the Forum FAQ ?

[mahcuz]

How about reading the Forum FAQ ?

My apologies for not seeing that first.

When I do the command sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom, I get a message about it being write protected, and it mounts as read-only. Then, when I do a dir /media/cdrom, it does not show any Guest additions stuff. It shows an (amonst others) Ubuntu folder, and a wubi.exe, which leads me to believe my Ubuntu ISO is still mounted. I did unmount the CD/DVD by doing Device -> Unmount CD/DVD and then I tried to mount the Guest Additions iso. However, when I hover my mouse over the singular cd icon (bottom of virtual box) it shows my ubuntu iso as still being mounted.

[vbox4me2]

You can do a search ie. "ubuntu guest additions cdrom site:forums.virtualbox.org" on google, if I remember correctly you have to eject from ubuntu first.