[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#493491: Bug#493491: Bug#493491: [virtualbox-ose] make it

Matthias Bläsing matthias.blaesing at rwth-aachen.de
Mon Aug 4 13:33:53 UTC 2008


Hey,

Am Montag, den 04.08.2008, 14:58 +0200 schrieb Patrick Winnertz:
> Hey Matthias,
> 
> > These provide the utilities for Linux (or to be more precise Debian) as
> > guest. So far, so good. But I use Linux as Host and Windows (XP) as
> > Guest. With the non-ose version I can install the vbox guest additions
> > from a virtual CD and get the associated services. The contents of this
> > CD should also be available for the ose version.
> It is.. There should be a point in the Menu "Devices" called "Install Guest 
> Additions...". If there is no iso available on the filesystem it will download 
> one for you from the webservers of sun. So we actually doesn't have to provide 
> it in the archive/non-free. 

thanks for the advice. I would have sworn that I tried this and was not
offered that option. I checked again and - well ... it indeed does.

Maybe last time I missed something in the config when switching from the
non-ose to the ose version.

So big thanks and please close this bug!

Matthias

-- 
So long and thanks for all the fish!
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