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I've done a little with ubuntu but nothing so far with suse. I have loaded a vdmx which contains a recent suse with kde. I chose to install guest additions from the vbox menu. Inside the guest, it says "last plugged in device - vboxadditions_3". I think that means it's mounted? I think I need to install it now; and while I can open that dir I don't seem to have rights to execute as root (or whatever). This suse does not have sudo, apparently. I've been able to install ga on ubuntu thanks to a post here that showed the command line sudo expression for that. I've experimented a bit with suse but can't get it to see me as su or sudo or kdesu...can someone help with this? I read the post at the top of this forum section; it didn't really help much.

In Suse you finde virtualbox guest dadditions in yast2.

You're saying that my Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config didn't work or help? What exactly didn't work or what errors did you get? Did you do a full update and a reboot before going to the next step?

I have loaded a vdmx which contains a recent suse with kde

Why don't you install it yourself? Then you will have the sudo'ers and su passwords . You aren't going to get the GA's to install until you have the proper permissions.

For once (almost the only time) I installed a complete image that came with a complicated set of packages preinstalled so that I could test out environment. Most of the installation instructions for those packages are in a language I don't understand so the image seemed like a good idea. I have the root password; so I probably could find the rights to run the GA setup if I knew how. I am pretty much at sea when in comes to linux.

I could try to install sudo on this image; I looked into that and at least the article I read looked complicated. I've never touched yast or suse so I was hoping for the max simplicity.

Re the instructions at the top of this subforum, I'm sure they're good but since they rely on sudo and this image does not have sudo and installing sudo didn't look like a no brainer, I posted here. I was hoping for someone to lay down a command line in whatever format makes sense for suse, like the instructions I followed recently to do the same thing for ubuntu.

Somethink like yast -i <enter> mypassword /somepath/vboxadd setup goforit

hangerglide,
We are not here to teach you how to use these different Linux distros. If you can actually type su and enter a password to get to a # then run the following in a terminal.
Then you should be able to install the GAs from the same terminal as su.

For more information on a specific OS you need to google their forums and see how they say to do these things.
Put guest additions in (what ever the OS is) Example: guest additions in suse or guest additions in OpenSUSE or guest additions in RHEL

Well, I just thought I'd ask. In general you guys have been extremely generous helping myself and others get a handle on the various aspects of vbox. I don't know if I post a question on a suse forum if anyone will know how to install guest additions; I suppose someone would. With a windows guest, GA installs so easily. For some reason, maybe by design, my experience is that on a Linux vm choosing Install Guest Additions has never installed guest additions. I thought this rather odd, ie it seemed like a bug, in comparison with how GA works with windows guests.

I apologize for asking something that made you think you had to teach me how to use these different linix distros.

I really do appreciate the existence of vbox and the support you guys do provide here. It, and you guys, are an amazing resource.

Look this is not the problem. If you search with the terms I gave you the answers are there. That is how I found the different ways to make this happen as I am sure others have. If after you search and still can not find the solution then ask.

My howto does indeed use sudo, but sudo is nothing more than a command to attain temporary root privileges. When you are root trough the use of su, then you can ommit sudo in the commands. I will update the howto, I noticed that I say that each command is ran as root, yet I typed sudo for every command. Small mistake, easy fix. I hope that the howto makes more sense now.