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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Setup: |
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> Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host |
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> is win10 (64bit) |
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> Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of |
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> app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 |
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> However, my version of vbox is for a windows host (5.1.14). And |
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> actually has the guest additions for that version already installed. |
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> Also before I noticed what was getting installed emerge had tried and |
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> failed to install the cited above package. |
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> I noticed the version that matches my vbox version (5.1.14) is |
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> available but masked unless setting ~amd64. I'm trying for a stable |
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> setup so, put this in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords: |
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> =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.14 ~amd64 |
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> I tried to emerge it directly with: |
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> emerge app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions |
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> And sure enough emerge selected the right version but again the |
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> install failed. I did not understand the failure from the build log. |
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> But since I have the proper version and am able to install it with the |
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> regular method vbox expects (mount the additions and install with |
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> sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run |
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> And since that method uses the currently installed kernel for its |
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> installation. Seems I can just reinstall the addtions using that |
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> method and tell gentoo about it with package.provided. |
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Again no solution from me, but looking at the virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.14.ebuild |
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there is a postinst log which you probably did not see due to the emerge failure, that |
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suggests a number of operations required to make the guest additions work properly: |
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elog "Please add users to the \"vboxguest\" group so they can" |
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elog "benefit from seamless mode, auto-resize and clipboard." |
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elog "" |
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elog "The vboxsf group has been added to make automount services work." |
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elog "These services are part of the shared folders support." |
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elog "" |
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elog "Please add:" |
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elog "/etc/init.d/${PN}" |
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elog "to the default runlevel in order to start" |
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elog "needed services." |
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elog "To use the VirtualBox X driver, use the following" |
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elog "file as your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:" |
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elog " /usr/share/doc/${PF}/xorg.conf.vbox" |
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elog "" |
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elog "Also make sure you use the Mesa library for OpenGL:" |
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elog " eselect opengl set xorg-x11" |
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elog "" |
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elog "An autostart .desktop file has been installed to start" |
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elog "VBoxClient in desktop sessions." |
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elog "" |
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elog "You can mount shared folders with:" |
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elog " mount -t vboxsf <shared_folder_name> <mount_point>" |
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elog "" |
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elog "Warning:" |
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elog "this ebuild is only needed if you are running gentoo" |
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elog "inside a VirtualBox Virtual Machine, you don't need" |
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elog "it to run VirtualBox itself." |
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If you did not do the above you might incur in trouble later. Apart from this if I were |
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you I'd try to understand why the guest-additions emerge failed. Maybe you could try to |
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post the ebuild log? |
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raffaele |
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