virtualbox – Ryan Schulze

Virtualbox to 4.2.12 problems with Ubuntu

April 16, 2013April 16, 2013Ryan12.04, 12.10, 4.2.10, 4.2.12, ubuntu, virtualbox

After updating Virtualbox to 4.2.12 and updating the guest additions on my Ubuntu 12.10 the guest suddenly started having problems with the graphics driver (X.org wouldn’t start correctly, only starts in “rescue” mode). I did a bit of googling, and it seems other users are also affected (mainly 12.04 and 12.10 Ubuntu), and it seems to affect people who upgraded from virtualbox guest addditions 4.2.10 -> 4.2.12

Here the quick and dirty workaround to the problem: download the 4.2.10 guest additions and use them.

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.10/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.10.iso
mount -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.10.iso /mnt
cd /mnt/
bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.10/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.10.iso

mount -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.10.iso /mnt

cd /mnt/

bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Will need to reboot or make sure the new modules are loaded and restart X afterwards.

New Virtualbox version, script for easy update of extension pack

March 14, 2012March 14, 2012Ryan2 Commentsbash, extpack, virtualbox

VirtualBox 4.1.10 was released yesterday with a few nice things in the changelog. Updating virtualbox itself is easy, just download the package and update it. Since I seem to stumble over the update of the extension pack every time (on my headless system) I thought I’d write a small script this time so I don’t have to rethink it next time (automatically downloads and installs the current extpack):

#!/bin/bash
URL="$(wget -qO - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|grep "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"|sed "s/.\+\(http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org.\+.vbox-extpack\).\+/\1/")"
File=${URL##*/}

if [[ "${URL}" != "" &amp;&amp; "${File}" != "" ]]
then
  echo "Downloading and installing ${File}" &amp;&amp; \
  wget -qO ${File} ${URL} &amp;&amp; \
  VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${File}
fi

#!/bin/bash

URL="$(wget -qO - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|grep "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"|sed "s/.\+$http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org.\+.vbox-extpack$.\+/\1/")"

File=${URL##*/}

if [[ "${URL}" != "" && "${File}" != "" ]]

then

echo "Downloading and installing ${File}" && \

wget -qO ${File} ${URL} && \

VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${File}

Virtualbox update

April 28, 2011Ryanubuntu, virtualbox

Anyone running Ubuntu as a Virtualbox guest is advised to update to Virtualbox 4.0.6 (+ the extensions) that was released today. Don’t forget to recompile the guest additions after upgrading to 4.0.6. Besides the usual stuff in the changelog, the update fixes a problem with screen resolution in Ubuntu 11.04. Since the Ubuntu update is just around the corner updating Virtualbox beforehand will prevent a bit of hassle.