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Just to close this thread with a fix. |
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Instead of running vboxadd-xclient in the .xinitrc file, run |
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VBoxClient. |
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The seamless mode works and the auto-resize guest display works too. |
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Enjoy an almost fully functional gentoo guest inside windows xp. The |
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only issue still pending is sharing the clipboard. |
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Valmor |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: de Almeida, Valmor F. [mailto:dealmeidav@××××.gov] |
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:06 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest |
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on xp |
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> host |
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> |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: PaulNM [mailto:gentoo@×××××××××.com] |
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> > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:25 AM |
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> > |
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> > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > Verifying archive integrity... All good. |
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> > > Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux |
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> installation |
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> > > .... |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Well, first I'd do a "dmesg | grep vbox" to see if there are any |
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> errors |
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> > listed. |
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> It is clean. |
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> > |
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> > When I do a search for 98vboxadd-xclient on my Debian-Etch guest I |
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> find |
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> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-client. This is a script that starts |
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> > /usr/bin/vboxadd-client with no options. If you tried the suggestion |
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> in |
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> > the output about adding it to .xinitrc, try running |
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> > /usr/bin/vboxadd-client from an xterminal. |
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> |
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> There is no 98vboxadd-xclient in my gentoo guest system. So I run |
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> vboxadd-xclient within .xinitrc. However I also have tried from an |
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xterm |
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> and here is the result |
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> Unable to connect to the host system. |
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> Failed to connect to the host system. |
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> Don't know where to go from here. Are there options when running |
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> /usr/bin/vboxadd-xclient? |
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> > Another thing, check to make sure that xorg.conf has "vboxvideo" as |
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> the |
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> > driver in the "Device" section. "grep vbox /etc/X11/xorg.conf" |
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> |
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> Yup. |
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> > |
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> > The DKMS line may just be an informational message. |
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> I tend to agree. |
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> > How did you install virtualbox? Make sure the Guest additions cd |
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> you're |
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> > using is the same version as the virtualbox install you have. If you |
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> > installed from portage, but downloaded the additions from the site, |
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> they |
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> Sorry I confused you. My host is a Windows XP. The guest addition is |
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> certainly from vbox-1.6 |
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> > Hope this helps, post any error messages you see, |
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> > |
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> > PaulNM |
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> Thank you for your efforts. |
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> |
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> Valmor |
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