Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

[Mika Suomalainen]

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06.05.2012 17:00, G. kirjoitti:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> HI
>> 
>> I have Installed Ubuntu 11.10 as guest OS in VirtualBox running
>> in Ubuntu 12.04.  I understand that to get the best performance I
>> should install the Guest Additions, but am not sure of the
>> correct way to do this, google having found conflicting advise on
>> this for me.  For example [1] provides two different methods, one
>> in the text and another in the first comment, and when I
>> attempted this some time ago I think I used another method, which
>> I was never quite sure had worked properly.  What is the
>> recommended way of doing this please?
>> 
>> Colin
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/06/26/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-on-virtualbox-guests/
>>
>
>> 
> 
> I am pretty sure that on 11.10 you have to download it from the 
> virtual box site, and then install it with a double click while in
> the guest system.  I think installing it from virtual box (Device I
> think) just will not work, but you can try that and if it works,
> you should be fine.  I have used 11.10 as a host not as a guest.
> 
> Hope it goes well.
> 
> 
> garyk
> 

I think that the recommended way is to install package
virtualbox-ose-guest-x11.
Many Ubuntu blogs recommend this and they say that Unity works with
that package.

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