VirtualBox

Opened 11 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#12200 closed enhancement (fixed)

Change the way "Install Guest Additions..." is handled -> fixed as of 22 October 2013 (4.3 branch and later)

Reported by: Socratis Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version:
Keywords: Guest Additions Cc:
Guest type: all Host type: all

Description

I've seen a lot of people complain that after going to the "Install Guest Additions..." (IGA) menu, the Guest Additions (GAs) are not installed on their guest VMs. This is because they do not realize that the only thing that IGA does is to insert the VB GAs in their CD drive and that additional action is needed to actually install the GAs.

I propose to:

1) Have a dialog box with a warning that they there are additional steps to actually have the GAs installed. Optionally a "Do not show this again" checkbox.

2) Change the wording from "Install Guest Additions..." to "Insert Guest Additions CDROM..."

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Max D, 11 years ago

I can only agree to this

comment:2 by Michael Thayer, 11 years ago

Summary: Change the way "Install Guest Additions..." is handledChange the way "Install Guest Additions..." is handled -> fixed as of 22 October 2013 (4.3 branch and later)

I changed the text to "Insert Guest Additions installer..."

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.2.

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