Re: So far some minor LilyDev issues

[Adam Good]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:22 AM Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

Federico, I'm still getting the same thing when trying 'Devices/Insert
Guest Additions CD image' see screenshot:

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