Sun Virtualbox User Manual

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4 The VirtualBox Guest Additions 1. Mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file as your Solaris guest’s virtual CDROM drive, exactly the same way as described for a Windows guest in chapter 4.2.1.1, Mounting the Additions ISO file, page 58. If in case the CD-ROM drive on the guest doesn’t get mounted (observed on some versions of Solaris 10), execute as root: svcadm restart volfs

2. Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root: pkgadd -d ./VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg

3. Choose “1” and confirm installation of the guest additions package. After the installation is complete, re-login to X server on your guest to activate the X11 Guest Additions.

4.4.2 Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions The Solaris Guest Additions can be safely removed by removing the package from the guest. Open a root terminal session and execute: pkgrm SUNWvboxguest

4.4.3 Updating the Solaris Guest Additions The Guest Additions should be updated by first uninstalling the existing Guest Additions and then installing the new ones. Attempting to install new Guest Additions without removing the existing ones is not possible.

4.5 OS/2 Guest Additions VirtualBox also ships with a set of drivers that improve running OS/2 in a virtual machine. Due to restrictions of OS/2 itself, this variant of the Guest Additions has a limited feature set; see chapter 13, Known issues, page 189 for details. The OS/2 Guest Additions are provided on the same ISO CD-ROM as those for the other platforms. As a result, mount the ISO in OS/2 as described previously. The OS/2 Guest Additions are located in the directory \32bit\OS2. We do not provide an automatic installer at this time. In that directory, a file called readme.txt describes how to install the OS/2 Guest Additions manually.

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