Re: So far some minor LilyDev issues

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 25 dic 2018 alle 18:24, Adam Good 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hi All,
>
> I've booted up the current LilyDev distribution in a VM (Virtualbox) 
> on my
> MacBook Air running OSX, from the file lilydev-debian-vm-0.3.zip
>
> I'm not able to add guest additions:
>
> @@@
> Unable to insert the virtual optical disk
> /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso 
> into the
> machine LilyDev.
> @@
>
> I had the same issue running Debian on the same machine in a VM but 
> was
> able to solve via:
> https://virtualboxes.org/doc/installing-guest-additions-on-debian/
>
> Tried the same in LilyDev but still it's not happening. I also notice
> trying to mount cdrom doesn't happen because /media/cdrom isn't found 
> in
> fstab.
>
> Any suggestions? I'd love to be able to resize the window of my VM.


I confirm the problem on Linux host.
It seems that Guest Additions are not automounted when LilyDev starts.

In the guest (LilyDev), open a console and type these commands:

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Now you should see the contents of the guest additions:

ls /media/cdrom

and you can run it:

sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

this will enable some kernel modules: vboxsf, vboxguest.
Restart the virtual machine and it should work.

Currently I see these modules in the guest:

$ lsmod | grep vbox
vboxsf 45056 0
vboxguest 286720 6 vboxsf
vboxvideo 36864 3
ttm 98304 1 vboxvideo
drm_kms_helper 155648 1 vboxvideo
drm 360448 6 vboxvideo,ttm,drm_kms_helper

You may have to install dkms package in the guest: sudo apt-get install 
dkms

I'll try to make sure everything works without any manual configuration 
in the next release of LilyDev.