{"id":563,"date":"2014-02-24T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:10:11","slug":"virtualbox-guest-additions-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/virtualbox-guest-additions-on-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox Guest Additions on Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few notes on getting the VirtualBox Guest Additions to work on Ubuntu 14.04 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">alpha1<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Unknown version of X<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\"Installing the Window System drivers<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing<\/em><br \/>\n<em> X Window System drivers.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Explanation at the following links. \u00a0You need to use a newer version of the Guest Additions.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/xpressubuntu.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/14\/virtualbox-and-the-latest-14-04-display-stuck-at-low-resolution\/\">virtualbox and the latest 14.04&#8230; display stuck at low&nbsp;resolution<\/a><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/12623<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Headers for the running kernel not installed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/98416\/error-kernel-headers-not-found-but-they-are-in-place<\/p>\n<p>The message is misleading. \u00a0In my case it was actually missing <strong>dkms<\/strong> so before you install the addition run<br \/>\nsudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms<\/p>\n<p>Above helped with getting the Guest Additions running but still had some issue. \u00a0Looks like graphics resolution is ok but Unity not running. \u00a0I will investigate and update more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few notes on getting the VirtualBox Guest Additions to work on Ubuntu 14.04 alpha1. 1. Unknown version of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}