VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#8635 closed defect (fixed)

With recent updates to Ubuntu 11.04 the VirtualBox Guest Additions are ignored -> fixed as of March 17

Reported by: Nicola Jelmorini Owned by:
Component: 3D support Version: VirtualBox 4.0.4
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Linux

Description

Hi,

I have discovered that with the recent updates to Ubuntu 11.04, the VirtualBox Guest Additions doesn't works anymore. I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed since the beginning of March 2011 and I have saved several snapshots. Until the 15 of March all worked well, but suddenly, beginning with the updates of the 18 of March, the Guest Additions have stopped to work. I have other virtual machines installed with other Linux versions (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04), but here all works fine.

The consequence is that I can't test the new Unity interface anymore.

I attach my Vbox.log.

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VBox.log (82.2 KB ) - added by Nicola Jelmorini 13 years ago.
Vbox.log of the boot and logout

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Change History (11)

by Nicola Jelmorini, 13 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

Vbox.log of the boot and logout

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Of course, because they changed the X server ABI. The next VirtualBox maintenance release will support Natty.

comment:2 by Nicola Jelmorini, 13 years ago

Ah, ok. Fine thanks. And it's possible to know a release date for the next maintenance release? Or at least a period (days, weeks, ...)?

Many thanks

comment:3 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

I'm afraid that we don't do any public release schedule, at least partly because we like to be able to "release when we are ready". However for now you could install the Guest Additions package in the Natty repository - as far as I know it is very close to the released 4.0.4 Additions with fixes backported to make it work on current Natty. If that doesn't do the trick we could provide you with an Additions pre-release.

comment:4 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

Summary: With recent updates to Ubuntu 11.04 the VirtualBox Guest Additions are ignoredWith recent updates to Ubuntu 11.04 the VirtualBox Guest Additions are ignored -> fixed as of March 17

in reply to:  4 comment:5 by Nicola Jelmorini, 13 years ago

Replying to michael:

Thank you Michael, but, at least for me, your suggestion doesn't works. The ISO from the package in the Natty repository don't have any effect.

comment:6 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

I believe that the package is virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, and installs the Additions directly without an ISO image. You will probably need to install virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms first if it isn't a dependency of virtualbox-ose-guest-x11.

in reply to:  6 comment:7 by Nicola Jelmorini, 13 years ago

Replying to michael:

I believe that the package is virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, and installs the Additions directly without an ISO image. You will probably need to install virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms first if it isn't a dependency of virtualbox-ose-guest-x11.

Ok Michael, now it's perfect! Many thanks to you for the support.

Now I can use again the very promising Ubuntu Unity.

Best Regards

comment:8 by Klaus Espenlaub, 13 years ago

Just to mention it so that I can find this again with the usual keywords: this change adds support for X.org 1.10 (and isn't really Natty specific).

comment:9 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

See Downloads for 4.0.5 guest additions with support for X.org 1.10.

comment:10 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The 4.0.6 additions contain support for X.org 1.10 and should fix this ticket.

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