dsl install on virtualbox

[col2025]

i have installed dsl on virtualbox & everything is working except i can't add guest additions to enable shared folders etc.?

does anyone have any suggestions

[grindstone]

Worked here. Need more on "can't add" -- what exactly are you trying and what exactly happened. What if you throw that image on another vbox drive, mount it, and run it by hand (as root)? Etc, etc, etc... Please clarify what you've tried.

[col2025]

Hi grindstone
i get to the finished installing damn small linux in virtualbox my problem is when i click insert guest additions cd it opens in dsl file manager but i can't get it to start, i'm a newbie with linux so probably clicking on the wrong things,

i read somewhere that have to click guestaditions.run to start the installation but on trying this nothing happened.,
i also thought that i might have missed something during install of dls so i created a second virtual machine called dsl 2 but same problem

[grindstone]

OK, if you're in there just after you chose the "insert guest additions", the image may be already (still) mounted in which case you just need to run it as superuser.

Do you see the volume VBox_GAas... in the file manager? If so, that's good. I'm sure there's a friendly way to do this but I don't know it so grab a Terminal from the top of the DSL main menu and type

Code:

df

and see if there's something under /media like maybe sr0 etc. If your GA image is mounted, it should show there, too--that's what you need to

Code:

cd /media/sr0
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

then type your password and it should run.

(note the . and the / in front of that).