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Sorry, I didnt explain my self. Once I mounted the CD I did do the normal dropping to a command prompt changing directly and doing a:

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sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Its didn't complain of any errors and seem to finish without issues. Might it still be looking at the Ubuntu default ones. I did see someone have a similar issue with Mint.

Thanks

Well, all I can tell you for sure is that the VirtualBox GAs are not installed. Only the Ubuntu fork ones are, and we have no idea what those will do when talking to a real VirtualBox host.

VBox.log wrote: 00:00:12.910480 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 5.0.18 r106667 '5.0.18_Ubuntu'

Thanks, I assume I run the following to get rid of the Ubuntu ones:

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sudo apt-get purge Virtual*

Seems right to me (from memory of other discussions), but I'm not a Linux user.

Well, I'm mystified now:

I removed (so I thought) the Ubuntu provided Guest Additions with the command above, rebooted and installed the Guest Additions from the Virtual CD, which by the way it said were already installed:

I then rebooted, and still have the same issue. However If I type:

peter@ubuntu:~$

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lsmod | grep -io vboxguest |xargs modinfo | grep -iw version

Its still reporting:

version: 5.0.18_Ubuntu

I have confirmed that the Ubuntu version has gone by typing:

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peter@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-source' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-utils' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-ose' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-modules' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-additions-iso' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-dkms' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-dkms' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-ext-pack' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-source' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-ose-fuse' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-qt' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-2.0' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-2.1' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-2.2' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-modules' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-3.0' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-3.1' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-3.2' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-4.0' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-4.1' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-4.2' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-4.3' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-5.0' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-5.1' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-dbg' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-x11' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-guest-additions' for glob 'virtualbox*'
Package 'virtualbox-ose' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-ose-fuse' is not installed, so not removed
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-dkms' instead of 'virtualbox-modules'
Package 'virtualbox-2.0' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-2.1' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-2.2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-3.0' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-3.1' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-3.2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-4.0' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-4.1' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-4.2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-4.3' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-5.0' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-additions' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-5.1' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-dkms' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-ext-pack' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-additions-iso' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-dkms' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-source' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-utils' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-guest-x11' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-qt' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'virtualbox-source' is not installed, so not removed
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade.

I consider myself quite technical, but I'm now lost. I do prefer VirtualBox as its (normally) much easier to install the Guest Additions and its OpenSource, but I think I'm going back to VMWare Player.

Thanks for all the help though. Much appreciated.

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