Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

[Colin Law]

On 6 May 2012 15:56, Mika Suomalainen <mika.henrik.mainio at hotmail.com> wrote:
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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/
>>>
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>>>
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>> 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
>>
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> 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.

Many thanks Mika, installing virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 in the guest
worked perfectly.

Colin