Author: Tim Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Resize screen in virtaul box
On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:49:06 Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/9/6 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> > Surprising what a poke in the right direction will do, OK I have made
> > progress. When I try to install the VBox additions it complains that I
> > need to install a GNU Compiler? what exactly is it. I have installed the
> > kernel headers ( which it asked for and several other packages that the
> > headers dragged in), I have gcc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 installed and they
> > all say they are gcc compilers??
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
>
> Should be enough.
>
> Standard Ubuntu has this - I installed 9.04 and 9.10 in VirtualBox
> just this week, and the very first thing I did was install the
> VirtualBox additions. I guess your guest doesn't have that stuff by
> default.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
Cheers Alan, I thought there was a build-essential, but when I tried I must of
got the word format wrong. Installed and working thanks.
Should I have been able to change the resolution from within XFCE, or is that
something that virtaulbox disables??
