Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox-guest-additions

[Alan McKinnon]

On 18/02/2017 00:08, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are
> running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS?
>
> Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is being installed, and the
> host is something else.



* app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions
     Available versions:  4.3.38 (~)4.3.40 (~)5.0.16 (~)5.0.30 5.0.32
(~)5.1.12 (~)5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"}
     Homepage:            http://www.virtualbox.org/
     Description:         VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools
for Gentoo guests


So it is the latter

>
> I ask, because I'm installing gentoo into a vm on a windows host.
> I've done this quite a few times.
>
> And the vbox pkg that gets installed on windows always has the
> guest-additions supplied internally.
>
> That is I've installed the virtualbox-guest-additions from the vbox
> package installed on the win10 host.
>
> Or is it expected that for gentoo, one is to install the
> guest-additions thru portage (when the host is not gentoo)

Err no, that would be impossible (for all practical intent)

>
> Jesus, that sounds complicated.
>
> All I'm trying to ask is if you are installing a vbox vm with gentoo
> os in a non-gentoo host are you expected to install the
> guest-additions thru portage.

You install virtualbox-guest-additions on a Gentoo guest VM.
What is running on the host is irrelevant



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