How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Tiny Core Linux?

[Adam]

Hi, I was getting this error message when trying to install VirtualBox Guest Additions. Please help

tc@Core1:/mnt/sr0$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.16 Guest Additions for Linux…………
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Copying additional installer modules …
Killed
tar: short read
tc@Core1:/mnt/sr0$

http://firewallengineer.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/how-to-install-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-tiny-core-linux/

[bmarkus]

Short read means corrupted source tar file.

[Adam]

Short read means corrupted source tar file.

Hmm.. is there any way to fix this issue?

[beerstein]

HI:
May I ask this question here?

I installed VB in TCL 4.7,X and I can see the icon in wbar. But when I click on it nothing happens.
Did somebody install VB in TCL?

If yes please help

[andyj]

Short read can also mean that your VM doesn't have enough RAM.

[beerstein]

thank you - you might be right!

Here is what I have on my system where TCL is running and VB is installed:
686.2 MiB
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
32-bit
80.0 GB
Gallium 0.4 on softpipe

I will try it on another machine with 2GB of RAM

[sebus]

Anybody has any idea how to install VB Additions (for mouse integration) in VB 5 using TC7 x86

[Juanito]

Load the compiletc extension

[sebus]

Not yet:

[Rich]

Hi sebus
I think you need to install:
linux-kernel-sources-env.tcz
Be sure to read the info file for instructions.

[sebus]

Well, I can install it, but headers are still not found

[Juanito]

Did you see the extension download the linux source?

[sebus]

cliorx must be run from /mnt/sd1/tce/ondemand

Had to increase memory assigned to the VM, so /tmp had enough free space

This way headers do download & additions install (apart from X)



but mouse integration still does NOT work

sebus

edit:
Had to:
remove Xvesa.tcz from onboot.lst
tce-load -iw Xorg-7.X
as per this

That will make mouse integration work in THAT only seession, but not on reboot, as VBoxClient-all could not be added to .xinitrc as this file does NOT exist!

[sebus]

In fact VBoxClient-all does not exist anywhere on the system, so I have no idea what needs to be executed to get additions working again in another session

Some info about VBox additions here

[Juanito]

You need to make an extension out of the guest additions.

Note that tinycore uses .xsession and .X.d rather than .xinitrc