Installing VirtualBox guest additions in OpenSuse
I managed to install the VirtualBox guest additions for ubuntu without any problem. And as a result, I get some excellent features like “seamless mouse integration”, shared folder access etc, between my host (windows xp) and guest (ubuntu).
But when I tried to do the same for OpenSuse, I got into problem. I couldn’t run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from the terminal. I received an error messaage saying that “Please install GNU make, Please install GNU compiler”.
Then when I searched the web, I found this link quite useful.
As such, I executed this command in the OpenSuse terminal:
sudo zypper install gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source
It asked for my “root” password, and when i entered, it downloaded the necessary packages. (Though, i received an information that autoconf cannot be installed)
It took nearly 1 hour to download and install the necessary packages on my machine.
Then I ran the command:
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
after navigating to the appropriate “media” directory.
Then I was notified to restart the OS. And after that, I was able to use all the features I use with “ubuntu” as guest.
I also noticed that my OpenSuse resolution automatically increased to 1024×768 after installing the VirtualBox guest additions. (It was previously 800×600 only)
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Thank you!
Very useful, thanks !
Just what I was looking for. You described exactly my situation (worked just fine in Ubuntu guest, not so much in OpenSUSE guest) and thanks to you it’s working flawlessly!
Thank you, exactly what I was after.
Hello!,
This is good news, Im really looking forward to playing around with it once the beta opens up.,
It took a while, but it totally worth it.
Thanks for the tip.
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thank you!
Thanks man. I had the same issue with opensuse 11.1 and VirtualBox 2.0.5 and it worked great 4 me.
CYA
I had the same issue and you can solve it easier in the installation process. When you’re at the point where you have to specify the packages which get installed, you have to add the packages for gcc and the kernel sources, than you don’t have to download them later manually.
Thanks for finding out.
Thanks for sharing this knowledge.
Thanks for the spirit!
Jan
Great! Many THX! I was search like hell for that hint!
U should feed the openSuse-Community with this.
Thanks for the tips..
i have a problem after installing the guest additions and re boot Suse 10 it wouldn’t run again and it just show a black screen! the mouse cursor moves freely between the host and guest machine. but the guest machine still black.. any idea please?
Thanks
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Thanks a lot!
solved my problems too
THANK YOU.
Why don’t they just repost this on the VirtualBox website?