Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox-guest-additions

[Alan McKinnon]

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



-- 
Alan McKinnon
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[gentoo-user] virtualbox-guest-additions

[Harry Putnam]

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.

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)

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.

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.24 breaks 3D acceleration in linux guests (?)

[walt]

I state this as a question because I'm seeing different behavior on
different ~amd64 machines (as usual ;)

After upgrading from vbox-4.3.20-r1 to 4.3.24 yesterday I find that
my linux guests have no 3D acceleration.

Downgrading Virtualbox to 4.3.20-r1 fixes the problem on one ~amd64
machine but, of course, not the other one sigh.  I'm still playing
with downgrading mesa, etc, on the still-broken machine to see what
happens.

Anyone else noticing similar problems?