James Selvakumar’s Blog

February 23, 2008

Installing VirtualBox guest additions in OpenSuse

Filed under: linux, virtualization — James Selvakumar @ 6:45 am
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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)

3 Comments »

  1. Thank you!

    Comment by Damian — June 22, 2008 @ 1:44 am

  2. Very useful, thanks !

    Comment by Fra — June 26, 2008 @ 1:27 pm

  3. 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

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