Are you looking at the cdrom device from within the virtual machine?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Andrew Villagran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Yup, all of the instructions I've found basically say the same thing.
> First to click on Devices, then click on Install Guest Additions.  Then open
> a terminal.  Type in "cd /media/cdrom", then type in "sudo bash
> ./VBoxLinux*"
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Villagran wrote:
>> > I found instructions online to install VirtualBox Guest Addtions, but
>> when I
>> > enter:
>> >
>> > sudo bash ./VBoxLinux*
>> >
>> > it tells me:
>> >
>> > VirtualBox 2.0.2 Guest Additions installation
>> > detected unsupported x86 environment.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what that means or how to fix it.  I've been looking on
>> google
>> > for about 2 hours now trying to find an answer, but I haven't been able
>> to
>> > find anything.  Any ideas?
>>
>> You are installing the Guest additions inside the virtual machine,
>> right?  They aren't meant for the host.
>>
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