I can't install Guest Additions in VirtualBox OSE

Could you please get into more detail on why you can't install the guest additions?

Since this is kind of old, I was wondering if the issue was the same thing I was experiencing.

I'm running WIndows XP as a guest in Ubuntu, 9.04 Karmic Koala. I'm running VirtualBox 3.0.8_OSE r53138. The install of Virtual Box goes just great, installed windows xp, upgraded WIndows XP to SP3 with no issues. Now, clicking "Devices -> Install Guest Additions" does not bring up the installer for the VBox Guest Additions. I then click on My Computer, in the Guest OS, and see that the ISO is mounted, but the icon is not a CD, but the "No icon associated with this file type", I took a screen shot of what it look like in My Computer (Attached screenshotte.png).

Now, I then click on the Address Bar in Windows Explorer and type in D: <Enter>. I am able to see the ISO mounted at this point. I can double click on autorun.ini and it comes up just fine in notepad, but when I double click on the "VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe" file, the error dialog "D:\VboxWindowsAdditions.exe is not a valid Win32 application".

I install VirtualBox from the "Ubuntu Software Center" which I assume was just a GUI front end for apt-get. I removed virtual box using the "Ubuntu Software Center" and installed using apt-get. The command I used was "apt-get install virtualbox-ose-qt". Still the same results, no autorun, cannot execute file. I'm using the standard apt-get repos that come with Karmic.

The steps taken to get the guest additions to run was running : apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions.

I've been using Ubuntu for one or two version, and in the past, a separate command was not needed to install the guest additions. I'm not sure the reasoning behind making is a separate, independent package, but this issue made me create a support forum request here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31511&start=0&sid=0c6aa059a7c400bd0efb091cba26b67e

It seems like this could be handled another way:

1) If the guest additions package has not been install, do not allow the "Device->Install Guest Additions" menu to be selected and mount some strange iso that give strange results

or

2) Install the guest additions when installing the main virtualbox-ose-qt package.

Thanks for your time.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Thank you for your contribution to this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. My apologies as I should not have marked this bug Invalid. Because I could not find a 3.2.8 Maintainer PPA nor would a live CD of Maverick Meerkat fit this situation, you will have to wait for someone with more knowledgeable to help. However, the best I can offer is to download the newest VirtualBox 3.2.8 via http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.8/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb Disclaimer: this is a Pandora's box suggestion but will help settle this issue.

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