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VirtualBox 2.1.4 with Jaunty and Guest Addons

Seems that there is an issue with VirtualBox Guest Addons and Jaunty. The VirtualBox video driver will not install with the latest release of X. So what I did was extract the .run file:

# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-*.run --target foo

This will extract the binary file into the directory foo. Once that is done I go into the foo directory and edit the install.sh file.

# cd foo/
# vi install.sh

Instead of using vi use your preferred text editor. Next thing you want to do is search for the number 1.6. In vi, that would be /1\.6. Once you have found that, you will see something like 1.5.99.* | 1.6 ). Change the 1.6 to 1.6.0, save the changes, exit out of your text editor and then run the install.sh file:

# sudo ./install.sh

This should now go through and install the guest addons so you can have good video graphics instead of the 800×600 vesa garbage. Hope this helps people. Thanks to those on IRC who helped figure this one out.

Edit: Someone just pointed out THIS LINK to the VirtualBox forums that states the same exact thing.

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  • http://ubuntu-tutorials.com Christer Edwards

    Thank you for this post. My recent alpha-6 installation completely borked after adding Guest Additions. If you don’t mind I might pass on this fix and give you the proper credit.

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  • John Bäckstrand

    Perfect, thank you.

  • http://exain.com Vivek Kapoor

    This was amazing! Thank you so much :-)

  • http://www.davidkmuir.com David

    I can’t even get Jaunty to boot on VirtualBox (2.1.4). :-(
    Every time I try to install, it just loads up a LiveCD session when it’s done installing. When I then try to load up off the hd, it just sits there chugging away. Same issue with Kubuntu. Was able to install Intrepid without any issues…

  • Paul

    Great help. Many thanks. Now works like a dream

  • Jeebus

    Most excellent! Thank you so much for this!

  • Michi

    Great!

    Worked fine on intrepid amd64 host and jaunty 32bit guest.

    Thanks very much!

  • http://jpangamarca.wordpress.com Juan Pablo Angamarca

    It worked like a charm, thank you!

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