Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

[Mika Suomalainen]

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07.05.2012 14:30, Colin Law kirjoitti:
> 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/
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 
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.
> 
> Many thanks Mika, installing virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 in the guest 
> worked perfectly.
> 
> Colin

You're welcome :).

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