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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Virtualization and Cloud Computing Error in virtualbox while instaling guest additions Post 302790799 by timmypig on Saturday 6th of April 2013 11:41:01 PM

04-07-2013

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Upvan, apologies in advance for attempting to hijack your thread, but I'm struggling to get guest additions going in VirtualBox.

Background: I've fairly recently been obliged to start learning *nix after 25 years as a mainframe MVS => OS/390 => z/OS systems programmer. The *nix world is a complete and utter mystery to me, and so far I have walked away in disgust and fury from every attempt to get things running.

My Ubuntu image starts and complains about low graphics mode. OK, so I understand I have to install Guest Additions. I've exercised my Google-Fu and have seen all the different ways of doing this. But at the heart of the problem is making the .iso available as a virtual CD-ROM drive to mount. Nothing I've done will make the mount command work.

I have to do this using CLI as the GUI won't work due to low graphics mode. Catch-22.

If any of you kind folks can steer a noob in the right direction I'd appreciate it. If you're willing to help out please dumb it down as much as you can. I'd do the same for someone trying to get a CICS PTF from IBMLink and SMP/E receive it in z/OS!

Once again Upvan, sorry to hijack ...

---------- Post updated at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:23 PM ----------

Now I really feel like a goose. Just goes to show that if you swear enough, then open yourself up to ridicule, the answer will drop into your lap ...

$ sudo blkid ===> this showed that VirtualBox had given this image a CD-ROM
$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/vbox ===> sweet!
$ cd /media/vbox
$ ls ===> see quite clearly the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run file ... so then I did:
$ sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run ===> this appears to have worked as it should. Ends with:
"You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.
"Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done."

I'll enjoy the smug feeling of having completed something before I reboot and have it all (inevitably) unravel.

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pbuilder-uml.conf

pbuilder-uml.conf(5)						     pbuilder						      pbuilder-uml.conf(5)

NAME

       pbuilder-uml.conf - configuration file for user-mode-linux port of pbuilder

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/pbuilder/pbuilder-uml.conf contains default values used in pbuilder-user-mode-linux program invocation.

FORMAT

       MY_ETH0=tuntap,,,192.168.0.2
	      Configures ethernet setting used for booting linux.  See how rootstrap boots your system, and copy that.

	      Specify --eth0=slirp,12345,/usr/bin/slirp-fullbolt to use the slirp connection.

       UML_IP=192.168.0.3
	      IP address to use for guest OS.

	      This can be set to dhcp for obtaining IP address through DHCP.

       UML_NETMASK=255.255.255.0
	      Guest OS netmask

       UML_NETWORK=192.168.0.0
	      Guest OS network

       UML_BROADCAST=255.255.255.255
	      Guest OS broadcast

       UML_GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
	      Guest OS gateway

       PBUILDER_UML_IMAGE=${HOME}/uml-image
	      Guest OS file system image.

       UML_MOUNT_TMPFS=no
	      Whether to mount tmpfs inside the guest image.  This is probably mostly useless.

       BUILDPLACE=${HOME}/tmp/
	      The  location  which build will take place.  pbuilder-user-mode-linux will place temporary COW files to there.  The user running UML
	      needs to be able to access that directory.

       UML_MEM=128
	      The amount of memory allowed for UML.  Give more value to here.

       UML_HOSTNAME=uml-host
	      The hostname for the UML.

	      The hostname should be available in /etc/hosts so that hostname -f will be able to return the FQDN.

       UML_BUILDRESULT=/directory/of/build/result
	      The directory where build result of pbuilder-user-mode-linux is stored.

       ROOTSTRAP_IMAGESIZE=size-in-megabytes
	      The size, in MB, of the disk iamge to create. Defaults to 1000.

NOTES

       It is advised to set APTCACHEHARDLINK to no in ~/.pbuilderrc.  see pbuilderrc(5) for details.

AUTHOR

       Initial coding, and main maintenance is done by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>.

       The homepage is available at http://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org

FILES

       /etc/pbuilder/pbuilder-uml.conf, ${HOME}/.pbuilderrc

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder-user-mode-linux(1), pbuilder(8), pbuilderrc(5), pdebuild(1)

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