I installed almalinux in VirtualBOX in EOS Ganymede, but cannot install additional iso in VM.
I have installed virtualbox-iso package and Almalinux display iso in VM.
But when I click “Install additional iso“ in the menu of Virtualbox when VM running, Virtualbox don`t react to this. I still can use Vm, but this button “Install additional iso“ do nothing.
Could you share a screenshot of what you mean (I can’t use a VM on my current system so I can’t open it to see) and I will try to help you out (and if I can’t there is a good chance people will give you some ideas at to at least look at alongside the info you already shared)
Silly question. Do you have the iso mounted?
Yes
Not sure but something in my head is saying this isn’t what it’s for, I could be really wrong but might be worth checking out
Yeah, you could try looking for a install guest additions option within the actual distro or failing that, run virtualbox from the terminal and see if you get any errors showing up. . Of course, it may be a bug.
In the shell i see only this:
Qt WARNING: QObject::disconnect: wildcard call disconnects from destroyed signal of UIInvisibleWindow::unnamed
Hmm it seems to be killing some process possibly the one needed in this case but the message is quite vague
I had to download the guest addition iso into almalinux downloads folder then mount it and open a terminal and ls into the file. From there there is an install.sh that installed it into almalinux.here is the link to the ios from virtualbox.
Now work, try to install now
I ran into the same issue trying to use virtualbox to install the guest additions.I do not know if it is a bug or security issue.Using the iso from inside almalinux worked for me.I have also installed the additions the same way with arch as well.
Why would you do that when you can install the Arch package :
sudo pacman -S virtualbox-guest-iso
As i understood the OP they can not get the guest additions to work with EOS virtualbox running almalinux as a guest.The guest addictions are installed in EOS.I may have misunderstood the OP.
That’s as I understood it @straycat, but perhaps I misunderstood too.
I’m curious to hear from @vazicebon whether there’s a next step, in making the installed virtualbox-guest-iso available to a non-Arch guest.
@wodsfortdragon, to build on what vazicebon said: while you need the ISO on the host, the actual installation must happen inside the Guest VM. Since your guest is AlmaLinux (not Arch-based), the process for installing dependencies and running the installer is specific to that distro. Because this is a guest-side configuration issue for a non-EndeavourOS system, you’ll likely find better step-by-step help in the AlmaLinux or VirtualBox forums. Good luck!
As I posted earlier I downloaded the iso from virtualbox into the downloads folder in almalinux
I used gnomedisks to mount the iso.
The iso was mounted in /run/media/username/isoname
cd to that in a terminal
ls in terminal showed the contents of the ios.
sudo ./autoinstall.sh I am pretty sure is the right name if not it is close.
that installed the additions
They might also make sure kernel-devel is installed as well
If using fedora as a guest it is already installed in the guest.Red Hat based it is not.
Feel free to correct as mistakes as my memory is not what it used to be.
