Headless installation: How to get vboxguestadditions.iso ?

rowi · Post by **rowi** » 17. May 2008, 16:57

Hello,

I installed Version 1.6 on Debian minimal (Etch) and am quite happy. But due to the bad mousepointer in the virtual Windows machine I have the need to install the VBox Guest Additions which should be in a vboxguestadditions.iso. I know how to handle this when using Windows as a host (just click here and there) but when using a Headless install, means just my loved commandline, I haven't found something which could work. If I had a iso-file I would do just like this:

VBoxManage modifyvm "Winnie" -dvd /terabyte/vboxguestadditions.iso

Is there the plain ISO-File downloadable? Or is there another way to accomplish this? I do not have any XServer installed so I cannot use any graphical things (except for vrdp on the client).

Can you give me a hint?

best regards
Rolf

rowi · Post by **rowi** » 31. May 2008, 15:09

Isn't there someone who knows that?
The mouse is still unusable in the virtual machine running Win XP.

Rolf

guwapo · Post by **guwapo** » 31. May 2008, 17:23

that should work - or what error do you get?

on debian you can search for files like this:

# updatedb
$ locate VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

on a standard installation you will find it under:

/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

rowi · Post by **rowi** » 31. May 2008, 17:26

Ha! Got it!

Thank you so much!

Rolf