04-07-2013
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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virt-viewer
VIRT-VIEWER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation VIRT-VIEWER(1)
NAME
virt-viewer - display the graphical console for a virtual machine
SYNOPSIS
virt-viewer [OPTIONS] DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID
DESCRIPTION
virt-viewer is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC protocol.
The guest can be referred to based on its name, ID, or UUID. If the guest is not already running, then the viewer can be told to wait until
is starts before attempting to connect to the console The viewer can connect to remote hosts to lookup the console information and then
also connect to the remote console using the same network transport.
OPTIONS
The following options are accepted when running "virt-viewer":
-h, --help
Display command line help summary
-V, --version
Display program version number
-v, --verbose
Display information about the connection
-c URI, --connect=URI
Specify the hypervisor connection URI
-w, --wait
Wait for the domain to start up before attempting to connect to the console
-w, --reconnect
Automatically reconnect to the domain if it shuts down and restarts
-d, --direct
Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH, even if the main connection URI used SSH.
EXAMPLES
To connect to the guest called 'demo' running under Xen
virt-viewer demo
To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU
virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7
To wait for the guest with UUID 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521 to startup and then connect, also reconnecting upon restart of VM
virt-viewer --reconnect --wait 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521
To connect to a remote console using TLS
virt-viewer --connect xen://example.org/ demo
To connect to a remote host using SSH, lookup the guest config and then make a direct non-tunnelled connection of the console
virt-viewer --direct --connect xen+ssh://root@example.org/ demo
AUTHOR
Written by Daniel P. Berrange, based on the GTK-VNC example program gvncviewer.
BUGS
Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools"
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat, Inc, and various contributors. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
virsh(1), "virt-manager(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"
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