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04-13-2017, 10:24 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
Posts: 7
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Virtualbox Guest Additions
Hello. Some distros have virtualbox guest additions in it's repositories. Is it better to install guest additions from the repos or use virtualbox's own guest additions.
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04-13-2017, 10:43 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,937
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On Slackware --Current, I usually install and update VirtualBox using the *.run script "for all distros" from the VirtualBox website, so I usually install VBGuestAdditions and PUEL the same way.
If you have installed VB from your distro's repos, you should likely install Guest Additions and PUEL the same way, in the interest of consistency. |
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04-13-2017, 10:59 PM
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thanks frank
Last edited by KCBL; 04-13-2017 at 11:01 PM.
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04-13-2017, 11:04 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,937
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You are welcome. Let us know how it goes.
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04-14-2017, 08:45 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
Posts: 11,261
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Yes, use the "Guest Additions" that VirtualBox supplies, and which it updates from time to time.
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04-15-2017, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
Yes, use the "Guest Additions" that VirtualBox supplies, and which it updates from time to time.
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I used the virtualbox guest additions from the arch repos. So far, arch is working fine. |
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04-15-2017, 04:23 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: USA and Italy
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
Posts: 5,524
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You can use either the files from Oracle or the distro specific files, but don't mix them together, except in the case of extension packs, which you can only obtain from Oracle. I find the distro specific virtualbox equally reliable to the files directly from Oracle.
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