root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --help Makeself version 2.1.5 1) Getting help or info about ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run : ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --help Print this message ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --info Print embedded info : title, default target directory, embedded script ... ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --lsm Print embedded lsm entry (or no LSM) ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --list Print the list of files in the archive ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --check Checks integrity of the archive 2) Running ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run : ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run [options] [--] [additional arguments to embedded script] with following options (in that order) --confirm Ask before running embedded script --noexec Do not run embedded script --keep Do not erase target directory after running the embedded script --nox11 Do not spawn an xterm --nochown Do not give the extracted files to the current user --target NewDirectory Extract in NewDirectory --tar arg1 [arg2 ...] Access the contents of the archive through the tar command -- Following arguments will be passed to the embedded script root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --info Identification: VirtualBox 4.1.3 Guest Additions for Linux Target directory: install Uncompressed size: 6874 KB Compression: none Date of packaging: Tue Sep 27 10:38:29 CEST 2011 Built with Makeself version 2.1.5 on linux-gnu Build command was: /mnt/tinderbox/add-4.1/tools/common/makeself/v2.1.5/makeself.sh \ "--nocomp" \ "/mnt/tinderbox/add-4.1/out/linux.x86/release/obj/Additions/Installer/linux/install/" \ "/mnt/tinderbox/add-4.1/out/linux.x86/release/bin/additions/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run" \ "VirtualBox 4.1.3 Guest Additions for Linux" \ "/bin/sh" \ "./install.sh" \ "./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 1> /dev/null" Script run after extraction: /bin/sh ./install.sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 1> /dev/null install will be removed after extraction root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --list Target directory: install drwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 0 2011-09-27 01:38 ./ -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 3084 2011-09-27 01:36 ./deffiles -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 10326 2011-09-27 01:38 ./install.sh -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 20078 2011-09-27 01:36 ./routines.sh -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 14936 2011-09-27 01:36 ./vboxadd -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 5407 2011-09-27 01:36 ./vboxadd-service -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 19701 2011-09-27 01:36 ./vboxadd-x11 -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 3644472 2011-09-27 01:38 ./VBoxGuestAdditions-amd64.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x vbox/vbox 3313173 2011-09-27 01:38 ./VBoxGuestAdditions-x86.tar.bz2 root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --check Verifying archive integrity... MD5 checksums are OK. All good. root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --keep Creating directory install Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.3 Guest Additions for Linux......... VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 4.1.2 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGL.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLarrayspu.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLcrutil.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLerrorspu.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLfeedbackspu.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLpackspu.so already exists add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxOGLpassthroughspu.so already exists Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done. Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used Installing the Window System drivers Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing X Window System drivers. Installing modules ...done. Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done. root@KanotixBox:/usr/Vbox Guest Additions/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.2_74190#