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iKevin

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From: Ann Arbor, MI

Registered: 2003-07-20

Posts: 132

[Solved] VirtualBox with Arch as guest question?

Hi All

It seems that most here are using VBox with arch as a host.  My wife has a new computer (with vista) and I would like to add arch using VirtualBox - Arch is the guest.  I have everything working fine and the xorg driver is the basic vesa driver.  I could get some improvement if I install the VirtualBox addition for the linux guest.  Their instructions are quite simple.  Mount the additions iso as a CD and run the shell scipt.  However, the linux script seems to be distribution dependent and it fails.

So, my question is, has anyone actually installed the VirtualBox additions for Arch as a guest and, if so, is there any pointers?

Thanks
Kevin

EDIT:  I guess it would be helpful to post the error message.  Here it is:

[root@ghost ~]# sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.3.8 Guest Additions for Linux installation..................................................................................................................................
VirtualBox 1.3.8 Guest Additions installation
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module...
Building the shared folder support kernel module...
Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions...

Unable to determine your Linux distribution
./runlevel.sh: Unknown system
Could not find add/remove init scripts to a runlevel utility
This operation can not continue without it
Unable to install Guest Additions kernel module system service.

Last edited by iKevin (2007-05-15 00:21:47)

iKevin

Member

From: Ann Arbor, MI

Registered: 2003-07-20

Posts: 132

Re: [Solved] VirtualBox with Arch as guest question?

Hi All

This was solved by some help on the vbox forum.  The link is here.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=173

It seems that this could be done using a PKGBUILD.   

Kev