VBox guest additions not working on Backtrack 4 R2

[falseteeth]

I'm running Backtrack 4 R1 in Virtual Box. When I try to upgrade to the new kernel, my guest additions are disabled. I tried the following fix, posted in another thread, and it did not work:

Remove VMWare software prior to install Virtualbox Guest Additions

aptitude purge xserver-xorg-video-vmware
vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
reboot

Install lastest dkms package from BT repository

dragon
repositories
quit
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install dkms

Install Vbox Guest Additions..

mount /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
reboot

Then check if vbox modules are loaded on boot and vbox guest services are running...

dmesg |grep vbox
/etc/init.d/vboxadd status && /etc/init.d/vboxadd-service status

Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log in order to verify vbox xorg modules are loaded successfully. Here a xorg.conf example :

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "VirtualBox Mouse"
        Driver          "vboxmouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "VirtualBox Video Card"
        Driver          "vboxvideo"
        BusID           "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "VirtualBox Video Card"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection      "Display"
          Depth         24
          Modes         "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

And finally ensure you have /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all added in your .xinitrc

I did this and it still said the guest additions could not start.

Is there a solution for this?

[ThePistonDoctor]

How about some more info...like an error message?

What are the commands you're running, the process you're following and what's happening when you do so? Where is failure encountered? If you want help you need to give exact step by step details.

I am running BT4 R2 in virtualbox w/ guest additions installed and it works great.

[Archangel-Amael]

I have both an R2 iso that I have made a vbox install with and only the screen auto resize does not work.
My R1 vbox that I upgraded to R2 however does work. All features of guest additions that is.
Both of these are running within the latest versions of virtualbox. This however is likely a vbox issue.

[ThePistonDoctor]

I have both an R2 iso that I have made a vbox install with and only the screen auto resize does not work.
My R1 vbox that I upgraded to R2 however does work. All features of guest additions that is.
Both of these are running within the latest versions of virtualbox. This however is likely a vbox issue.

Autoresize doesn't work for me either under OSX. I haven't played with the mode but I suspect that if I add in 800x600 to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf it may allow it to resize automatically. I manually wrote xorg so I only put the one res mode in that I cared about. Fullscreen works great and I can just tap the host key to escape and then alt+tab (well, Apple+tab ) to switch to other VMs or use the hot corners of my mac to flip flop back and forth. It's very user friendly and works like a charm

[alexmrtrip]

Vbox addition not autostart when system boot.

Start it manually and look all will work fine

root@bt:~# /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all

The find the way to add it in autostart.

[Archangel-Amael]

Vbox addition not autostart when system boot.
Start it manually and look all will work fine

root@bt:~# /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all

The find the way to add it in autostart.

Actually when you boot BT on VBox after having installed guest additions you will see that it starts guest additions during boot up. Otherwise you will see in read a "failed" message.

[x90opcode]

I'm running Backtrack 4 R1 in Virtual Box. When I try to upgrade to the new kernel, my guest additions are disabled. I tried the following fix, posted in another thread, and it did not work:



I did this and it still said the guest additions could not start.

Is there a solution for this?

Are you sure modules are running? open Konsole and post here lsmod output in order to check if it's ok.

Try to run /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all in Konsole, Is it working then? If not, follow the guide I wrote, it works for sure, I see most ppl forget to run VBoxClient-all, it MUST run in order to enable vbox additions features, dunno why it isn't loaded by default once you install the package, however you can add it manually in your .xinitrc before startkde, fluxbox or whatever you use as window manager.

basic .xinitrc example

root@bt# cat /root/.xinitrc
exec /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all &
exec /usr/bin/startkde

Ciao