On 18/02/2017 22:42, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 18/02/2017 00:08, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are
>>> running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS?
>>>
>>> Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is being installed, and the
>>> host is something else.
>>
>>
>>
>> * app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions
>> Available versions: 4.3.38 (~)4.3.40 (~)5.0.16 (~)5.0.30 5.0.32
>> (~)5.1.12 (~)5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"}
>> Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/
>> Description: VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools
>> for Gentoo guests
>>
>>
>> So it is the latter
>>
>>>
>>> I ask, because I'm installing gentoo into a vm on a windows host.
>>> I've done this quite a few times.
>>>
>>> And the vbox pkg that gets installed on windows always has the
>>> guest-additions supplied internally.
>>>
>>> That is I've installed the virtualbox-guest-additions from the vbox
>>> package installed on the win10 host.
>>>
>>> Or is it expected that for gentoo, one is to install the
>>> guest-additions thru portage (when the host is not gentoo)
>>
>> Err no, that would be impossible (for all practical intent)
>>
>>>
>>> Jesus, that sounds complicated.
>>>
>>> All I'm trying to ask is if you are installing a vbox vm with gentoo
>>> os in a non-gentoo host are you expected to install the
>>> guest-additions thru portage.
>>
>> You install virtualbox-guest-additions on a Gentoo guest VM.
>> What is running on the host is irrelevant
>
> Still not my question... sorry for the unduly doopy forumutation.
>
> I know guest-additions gets installed into a vbox vm once installed.
>
> Until this go around and I've done quite a few installs of gentoo into
> vbox vms ... but always installed the guest addtions that are already
> present in the vbox package. Not from portage.... as my host is win-10.
>
> That is, click the devices menu at the top of the vbox screen and
> click `install guest addtions'. Go to /media/cdrom and install them
> with ./NAME_addtions.run.
>
> I never installed them from portage... and had no idea they were even
> available on portage.
>
> Now if you are using the portage VBox package and installing vms on a
> gentoo host, then it makes sense to get the guest-additions on
> portage.
>
>
Either way works, the one you choose depends a lot on how you do things.
If your hosts are all the same OS but the guests are different then do
it the way you describe - it is consistent no matter what type of guest
you have.
If it's the other way round - different host OSes and all the guests are
Gentoo, the using portage makes more sense.
And, if you live and work in the real world, with many different
hypervisors on many different host OSes running many different guest
OSes with versions all over the place - then your life gets real
interesting real quick. (Don't ask how stuff got like that at work,
please please I beg you, do not ask. The pain, it is too much)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
