On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:10 AM, C Anthony Risinger <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:58 PM, dokondr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sure, will do. But before that I will try to find out on Virtual Box > forum > > why Guest Additions do not work properly in OsX host. > > are you referring to the Autorun/lack-of-execution in Debian? IIRC > guest additions is an iso embedded into the Virtualbox application (or > possibly the kernel module in the guest, but i dont think so) ... when > you trigger it, it simply makes the iso available as a new drive/disk; > i believe the guest is responsible for mounting/etc. more than > likely, the disk was mounted with `noexec` and thus no binaries are > allowed to run from here ... > > if you remount without that flag it would probably work. the behavior > itself is probably in a udev rule somewhere. > > -- > Guest Additions fail to mount properly and autorun from VirtualBox "Devices" menu. At least this is what going on on my system. Certainly there are ways to circumvent this, but first I need to know from VirtualBox guys if "this is a bug or a feature" (feature of my stupidity) :))
