On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:50:26 -0700 > wes <p...@the-wes.com> dijo: > > >On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:47 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> > >wrote: > >> There is probably a really obvious answer that I'm too dense to think > >> of. > > >sshfs? > > Did you mean that sshfs installed on the host is blocking the guest > from seeing and mounting shared folders? Or did you mean that I should > install sshfs on the guest and use it to access shares on the host? > > I was suggesting you use sshfs in between the VM host and guest, instead of VirtualBox's shared folders. I have recently become aware that Guest Additions do not appear to be > installed on the guest, or at least, not correctly installed. Since the > initial installation there has been a > folder /media/jjj/VBOXADDITIONS_4.4.46_105129. (4.3.36 is the version of > Virtualbox installed on the host.) At the top of the guest window there > is Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image .... Clicking on it brings > up a file browser window with installation programs for Linux, Windows, > Solaris. I selected VboxLinuxAdditions.run, made it executable and > double-clicked on it. That popped up a Mousepad window that said: > > The document was not UTF-valid > Please select an encoding below. > ( ) Default (UTF-8) (*) System (UTF-8) ( ) Other [ISO-8859-14] > Invalid byte sequence in conversion input > [Cancel] [OK] #[OK] is grayed out > This sounds like it's not trying to execute the file, but opening it in Mousepad. Which of course, doesn't work because it's not a text file. > The 8859-14 was grayed out, but I assumed that the run software in > Xubuntu 17.10 had detected that as the byte sequence for the file, so I > selected it, but the OK button remained grayed out. The button with > 8859-14 is a drop-down which gives a lot of other encoding formats. I > tried half of them but the [OK] button remained grayed out. > > At this point I am stuck. Any suggestions? > > Try executing it from the command line? Right-click on it and see if there's an "Execute" or similar option? -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
