[manjaro-general] Problem with Virtualbox Guest Additions

Philip Müller philm at manjaro.org
Fri Aug 1 22:15:44 CEST 2014


Hi Rolf,

if you install Manjaro inside VirtualBox our hardware detection tool 
(mhwd) will install virtualbox-modules for the installed kernel. Extra 
guest additions are not installed by default.

Phil

Am 01.08.2014 um 17:08 schrieb Rolf Edlund:
> 2014-08-01 16:53 GMT+02:00 Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org>:
>> Hi Rolf,
> Hi Philip!
>
>> we won't install guest additions by default. What meant is here
>> guest-modules if you install it inside of a Virtualbox machine.
> Hmmm..Maby I missunderstand you here You mean I have to manually
> install it with pacman or pamac ?
>
>> What is
>> installed regarding Virtualbox can be checked with:
>>
>> pacman -Q | grep virtualbox
>>
>> To search what is available regarding Virtualbox use:
>>
>> pacman -Ss virtualbox
> Thanks for the tips Philip!
>
>> Am 01.08.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Rolf Edlund:
>>
>>> I have a clean install of Manjaro 0.8.10 XFCE. And of the wiki page it
>>> says "Note: Manjaro will already have Guest Additions pre-installed,
>>> so there is no need to add it yourself.  But on my installl, there is
>>> no Guest Addition ?
>>>
>>> So I thought it will be fixed, when i install Virtualbox.
>>>
>>>        sudo pacman -S virtualbox
>>>
>>> But still no guest addition ?
>>>
>>> So installd it manually.
>>>
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