Installing Guest Additions

[JohnB352]

I'm sure this should be simple, but for some reason I can't get this working.
The host is XP Pro SP3. Virtualbox 4.0.0., for guests I'm using Windows 7 and Server 2008 Enterprise 32bit.

Everything works fine. But when I click on Devices>Install Guest additions, nothing happens. I tried it at work first. Just tried it at home. Same problem. I tried Devices>CD/DVD Devices>Choose a Virtual CD/DVD disk file, and picked the guest additions ISO. Didn't help.

I went by the online users manual. After the automatic method didn't work, I tried the manual method. In step #2:
Select "Mount CD/DVD-ROM" from the "Devices" menu in the virtual machine's menu bar and then "CD/DVD-ROM image".
That option isn't listed under Devices. And, I don't see anything under devices that says "CD/DVD-Rom image".

How can I get the guest additions installed?
Thanks.

[Perryg]

You can click on the CD/DVD section under devices and select to unmount the CD/DVD and then click on install guest additions again or just open your file manager, go to the CD/DVD and run them from there.

[chingasos]

JohnB352,

Do you have autorun disabled in the images for your guests?

[JohnB352]

or just open your file manager, go to the CD/DVD and run them from there.

That worked. Thanks.

[JohnB352]

JohnB352,

Do you have autorun disabled in the images for your guests?

Were you talking about autostart for the dvd drive? I couldn't find where to check that. Normally I'd go to Properties for the drive, and go to the autostart tab. Didn't find that. But, got guest additions installed. Thanks.

[squall leonhart]

Guest additions seems to only be working properly from the first cdrom drive, mounting it on others creates some odd issues :\

on my cd 4th drive for instance, it opens the file association dialogue when clicking autorun, and my third cd drive doesn't