Installing VirtualBox guest additions in OpenSuse
I managed to install the VirtualBox guest additions for ubuntu without any problem. And as a result, I get some excellent features like “seamless mouse integration”, shared folder access etc, between my host (windows xp) and guest (ubuntu).
But when I tried to do the same for OpenSuse, I got into problem. I couldn’t run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from the terminal. I received an error messaage saying that “Please install GNU make, Please install GNU compiler”.
Then when I searched the web, I found this link quite useful.
As such, I executed this command in the OpenSuse terminal:
sudo zypper install gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source
It asked for my “root” password, and when i entered, it downloaded the necessary packages. (Though, i received an information that autoconf cannot be installed)
It took nearly 1 hour to download and install the necessary packages on my machine.
Then I ran the command:
sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
after navigating to the appropriate “media” directory.
Then I was notified to restart the OS. And after that, I was able to use all the features I use with “ubuntu” as guest.
I also noticed that my OpenSuse resolution automatically increased to 1024×768 after installing the VirtualBox guest additions. (It was previously 800×600 only)
Thank you!
Comment by Damian — June 22, 2008 @ 1:44 am
Very useful, thanks !
Comment by Fra — June 26, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Just what I was looking for. You described exactly my situation (worked just fine in Ubuntu guest, not so much in OpenSUSE guest) and thanks to you it’s working flawlessly!
Comment by Chris — June 30, 2008 @ 4:42 am