VBox guest additions

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>> What is the current procedure for installing guest additions on
>>> non-FreeBSD guests?  With a FreeBSD host and XP guest, the guest exits
>>> instantly when Devices/Install Guest Additions/Yes is chosen.  But the
>>> downloadable guest additions from virtualbox.org aren't ISO format any more.
>>>
>>> This is VirtualBox 4.1.22 on amd64.
>>
>>
>> Manually downloading the guest additions ISO and mounting it worked. Odd,
>> though.
>
> Best way is to enable "Guest Additions" option in emulators/virtualbox-ose which
> downloads the ISO and installs it on your host. Then you should be able to
> use that menu option. If it crashes the guest then I'd like to have the VBox.log
> which should give a hint why and where it crashed.

That worked fine.