[plug] VBox guest additions

Onno Benschop onno at itmaze.com.au
Wed Jul 2 02:16:50 UTC 2014


I don't know if this helps, but I've been using open-vm-toolbox - for
VMware under a VMware guest. I'm guessing that there is an equivalent for
VBox.


On 2 July 2014 08:06, Kevin Shackleton <krshackleton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having a problem installing Guest Additions in a Debian 7 VM.
>
> The Guest Additions virtual disc is visible in Debian but I get IO
> failures trying to read it.
>
> I'm sure this is a combination of settings in the VM - the chipset
> (currently PIIX3) or some other things but I can't get the right mix or
> pick up a clue on the 'net.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin.
>
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