[SOLVED] VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO?

[epretorious]

I've installed VirtualBox 4.0.14 (r74382) from the Mageia repositories...

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[eric@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/mageia-release
Mageia release 1 (Official) for i586

[eric@localhost ~]$ # The packages ARE installed on the HOST system...
[eric@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i virtual
virtualbox-4.0.14-1.3.mga1
virtualbox-doc-4.0.14-1.3.mga1
dkms-virtualbox-4.0.14-1.3.mga1

[eric@localhost ~]$ # The packages are NOT installed on the HOST...
[eric@localhost ~]$ urpmq -a virtualbox vbox additions
dkms-vboxadditions
isdn4k-utils-vbox
virtualbox
virtualbox
virtualbox-guest-additions
x11-driver-input-vboxmouse
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo

...but the Guest Additions ISO doesn't appear to be included in any of these RPM's (see attached screenshot)...

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[eric@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep virtualbox | xargs rpm -ql | grep iso

Where can I find the Guest Additions ISO for this version of VirtualBox?

[ferri]

And what happened when you confirmed Yes button?

[epretorious]

And what happened when you confirmed Yes button?

The first time that I elected to download the disk image, VB timed out when downloading the file from dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net.

VirtualBox will offer to download the disk image directly from sun.com.edgesuite.net.

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VirtualBox will confirm that you'd like to download the disk image directly from sun.com.edgesuite.net.

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The second time, though, VB completed the download (20 MB) but VB bombed after asking if I'd like to mount the disk image.

VirtualBox was unable to mount the disk image file.

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The third time, VB completed the download (39 MB) and I opted not to mount the image so that I could move the disk image file to another directory and mount it on the host system. But then I realized that I'd forgotten to capture the dialogue box so I downloaded the disk image for a fourth time!

The fourth time, VB completed the download (40 MB this time) and then accepted the offer to mount the image. This time VB successfully mounted the disk image and loaded it into the virtual CD/DVD drive and I was able to execute the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script only to find out that the dynamic modules had already been installed!

FWIW: I've noticed that the project's site has been unreachable all weekend. Has anyone else noticed this?

[epretorious]

...This time VB successfully mounted the disk image and loaded it into the virtual CD/DVD drive and I was able to execute the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script only to find out that the dynamic modules had already been installed!

I had searched Google earlier in the day for "mageia VBoxGuestAdditions.iso". The snippet of the first result...

virtualbox.org • View topic - VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7007
15 posts - 8 authors - Jun 5, 2008
The guest additions are actually included (invisibly) in the binary package. You get at them by choosing Install Guest Additions from the...

...gave me a clue but, unfortunately, the VB forums aren't/weren't available so I wasn't able to read the forum post.

[ferri]

I see that I am right when I prefer VMware Player.
I tried VirtualBox many times and I always returned to VMware.

[epretorious]

I see that I am right when I prefer VMware Player.
I tried VirtualBox many times and I always returned to VMware.

I've been using VirtualBox quite happily for more than a couple of years and always found it on par with VMware Workstation but this version (i.e., 4.0.14) and the way that it's packaged have been problematic. e.g., Even though it's installed+working, networking has been [and continues to be] a real PITA.

Fortunately, the VirtualBox download repository is still on-line. I'm going to replace Mageia's 4.0.14 with Version 4.1.8 from the download repository today so that i can get back to doing work.

[doktor5000]

FWIW, some informations: the Mageia package of Virtualbox does not include guest additions image, because we can't build that from sources, also it's not under an OSS license if i remember correctly, so not permitting redistribution.

The question is, for which guest do you want the guest additions? For Mandriva you can just install dkms-vboxadditions in the guest. For others, or when a distribution has also vboxadditions already packaged/preinstalled, but the versions do not match, you need to install manually from said ISO image. But for the download problems best contact Oracle, there's nothing Mageia can do about that.

[epretorious]

FWIW, some informations: the Mageia package of Virtualbox does not include guest additions image, because we can't build that from sources, also it's not under an OSS license if i remember correctly, so not permitting redistribution.

The question is, for which guest do you want the guest additions? For Mandriva you can just install dkms-vboxadditions in the guest. For others, or when a distribution has also vboxadditions already packaged/preinstalled, but the versions do not match, you need to install manually from said ISO image.

Thanks, Doktor: The guest-in-question is/was RHEL 5 and, as I mentioned above, the guest additions were automagically installed by the binary package:

...This time VB successfully mounted the disk image and loaded it into the virtual CD/DVD drive and I was able to execute the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script only to find out that the dynamic modules had already been installed!

I had searched Google earlier in the day for "mageia VBoxGuestAdditions.iso". The snippet of the first result...

virtualbox.org • View topic - VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7007
15 posts - 8 authors - Jun 5, 2008
The guest additions are actually included (invisibly) in the binary package. You get at them by choosing Install Guest Additions from the...

...gave me a clue but, unfortunately, the VB forums aren't/weren't available so I wasn't able to read the forum post.

Thanks, again!