[Live-demo] VBox Additions on 6.5

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/13/2013 06:52 PM, Carlos Zenteno wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using 6.0 for a couple of months and now I have
> upgraded to 6.5 and I think I have a problem.
>
> I followed the installation on a VirtualBox to the T and everything
>
> worked fine.
>
>
> Now every time I launch the VBox (on a Ubuntu 11.04 host), everything
> works OK except for the desktop "expansion" and for the shared folder.
>
> I have to run the following:
>
> user at osgeolive:~$ cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104/
> user at osgeolive:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.runuser at osgeolive:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=user,rw GIS /home/user/GIS
>
> and reboot every time I launch the VBox...
> is this the way it is supposed to work? or
> am I doing something wrong?
> how do I fix it so it stays like that for future use?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for the help !!
>
> Carlos

You need to make sure you have the kernel headers for your current kernel.
uname will tell you what you have
then apt-get install
linux-headers...

remove vbox additions and reinstall.

Thanks,
Alex