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by **Bluevobler** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:36

I am new to Gentoo and obviously to Sabayon as well. Just installed Sabayon 3.4.3 on my box. Everything went very well and I have been quite impressed with this distro. I would appreciate some help with the preinstalled VirtualBox. It is missing VirtualBox Additions which is limitting its overall usability. I tried to use emerge to install the Additions but got the message that the package is blocked. Running emerge --pretend did not tell me anything usefull either. I have read earlier posts about installing VirtualBox from scratch from VBox site ,but I think it would be an useful exercise for a newbie to complete the installation of this package using wonderfull "emerge" feature.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Richard

by **wolfden** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:44

have you followed this?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO:_VirtualBox

by **Bluevobler** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 16:36

Thanks Wolfden,

I did indeed look at the link you mentioned but this does not answer my question. I installed the DVD version of Sabayon which comes with VBox already preinstalled. It works quite well, but it needs the additions for USB support, screen size, resolution etc. I just don't understand why I should install VBox again going through all the hassle just to get the Additions to work.

Thanks in advance

Richard

by **dave_p_b** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 19:40

Hi

I have Virtualbox installed in /opt/Virtualbox directory and the additions part is in /opt/VirtualBox/additions
Is this not the same for you? Your Virtualbox might be installed in a different directory to mine.

All the best

Dave

by **Bluevobler** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 21:47

Thanks Dabe,

My VBox is installed in the same directory as yours "/opt/VirtualBox". Unfortunatelly, /opt/VirtualBox/additions is not even there for some reason. As I said before - emerge keeps giving me "blocked package" message when I try to get the additions by running it.

Thanks

Richard

by **Bluevobler** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 21:51

Hi Dave,

Sorry for misspelling your name. It is just so hellishly hot down here.

Richard

by **Bam** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 22:12

Here is what I did since my laptop dual boots WinXP/Sabayon. I downloaded & installed Virtualbox for windows & copied VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from my windows partition (Program Files/innotek VirtualBox/) to /opt/VirtualBox on my Linux partition.

by **lxnay** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 22:34

3.4 will have the additions package included.

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