I just dist-upgrade'd my Debian guest from squeeze to wheezy. Now when I install guest additions I get:
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing
X Window System drivers.
Screen resizing and mouse pointer handling are not working properly, so it seems the X drivers did not install. What can I do to address this?
unknown version of the X Window System installed
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Etepetete
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Re: unknown version of the X Window System installed
The current release of VBox doesn't support X Windows 1.11. There is a discusion of this topic in the German language section. There (third post from fixedwheel) you will find a link to a ticket as well as a link to a testing version of the Guest Additions which supports the newer X Windows version.
xthx1138 wrote:What can I do to address this?
- You can add yourself to the ticket
You may try the testing version of the Guest Additions or
You can wait for the next release of VBox
Re: unknown version of the X Window System installed
That worked. Thanks.Etepetete wrote: You may try the testing version of the Guest Additions
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Re: unknown version of the X Window System installed
Upgrade to 4.1.4 that just got released. That has official support for xserver 1.11. Update the GA too.
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VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we're talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org
Retired from this Forum since OSSO introduction.
Re: unknown version of the X Window System installed
I'm getting this again after a recent upgrade on Debian jessie. Is their an updated GA available?
Re: unknown version of the X Window System installed
I found this ticket:xthx1138 wrote:I'm getting this again after a recent upgrade on Debian jessie. Is their an updated GA available?
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12623
and there was a link in there to a newer guest additions:
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -92075.iso
I used that to build GA 4.3.7, and got this promising message:
"Installing X.Org Server 1.15 modules ...done."
After a guest reboot life was good.