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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 18/02/2017 00:08, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are |
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>> running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS? |
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>> Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is being installed, and the |
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>> host is something else. |
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> * app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions |
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> Available versions: 4.3.38 (~)4.3.40 (~)5.0.16 (~)5.0.30 5.0.32 |
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> (~)5.1.12 (~)5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"} |
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> Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/ |
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> Description: VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools |
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> for Gentoo guests |
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> So it is the latter |
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>> I ask, because I'm installing gentoo into a vm on a windows host. |
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>> I've done this quite a few times. |
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>> And the vbox pkg that gets installed on windows always has the |
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>> guest-additions supplied internally. |
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>> That is I've installed the virtualbox-guest-additions from the vbox |
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>> package installed on the win10 host. |
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>> Or is it expected that for gentoo, one is to install the |
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>> guest-additions thru portage (when the host is not gentoo) |
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> Err no, that would be impossible (for all practical intent) |
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>> Jesus, that sounds complicated. |
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>> All I'm trying to ask is if you are installing a vbox vm with gentoo |
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>> os in a non-gentoo host are you expected to install the |
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>> guest-additions thru portage. |
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> You install virtualbox-guest-additions on a Gentoo guest VM. |
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> What is running on the host is irrelevant |
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Still not my question... sorry for the unduly doopy forumutation. |
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I know guest-additions gets installed into a vbox vm once installed. |
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Until this go around and I've done quite a few installs of gentoo into |
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vbox vms ... but always installed the guest addtions that are already |
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present in the vbox package. Not from portage.... as my host is win-10. |
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That is, click the devices menu at the top of the vbox screen and |
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click `install guest addtions'. Go to /media/cdrom and install them |
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with ./NAME_addtions.run. |
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I never installed them from portage... and had no idea they were even |
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available on portage. |
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Now if you are using the portage VBox package and installing vms on a |
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gentoo host, then it makes sense to get the guest-additions on |
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portage. |
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