SEA-PHAGES | Install Guest Additions to VM ---- Without "SEAFaculty Login ability"

Link to this post \| posted 17 Jan, 2017 19:36
GregFrederick@letu.edu	The final step in the VM installation this year has the instruction below. QUESTION: Is there a way that we can give students access to these "Guest Additions" without faculty login credentials? I am not comfortable giving the class my credentials? Is there another way to access these additions? Thanks. Greg 5. Install Guest Additions to make the VM work optimally with your host OS. Guest Additions are software you can install winthin your virtual machine to make it work more seamlessly with your host operating system. Basically, it lets the VM "play nice" with the host OS, and allows smoother mouse interactions, window resizing, clipboard sharing, time syncing, and more. To install Guest Additions, log in to the seafaculty account on your SEA Virtual Machine, find the VirtualBox VM menu, and go to Devices→Insert Guest Additions CD Image… You should see some activity within the VM in a terminal window. If prompted, enter the seafaculty password. When complete, you may see a success message in the terminal.

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The final step in the VM installation this year has the instruction below.

QUESTION: Is there a way that we can give students access to these "Guest Additions" without faculty login credentials? I am not comfortable giving the class my credentials? Is there another way to access these additions?

Thanks. Greg

5. Install Guest Additions to make the VM work optimally with your host OS.
Guest Additions are software you can install winthin your virtual machine to make it work more seamlessly with your host operating system. Basically, it lets the VM "play nice" with the host OS, and allows smoother mouse interactions, window resizing, clipboard sharing, time syncing, and more.
To install Guest Additions, log in to the seafaculty account on your SEA Virtual Machine, find the VirtualBox VM menu, and go to Devices→Insert Guest Additions CD Image…
You should see some activity within the VM in a terminal window. If prompted, enter the seafaculty password. When complete, you may see a success message in the terminal.

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hkotturi	Question - I was trying to learn using Phamerator software. I have downloaded the VirtualBox. Everything went well without any problems on my machine. But, When I try to start Phamerator, I get a message saying “”Database Setup Required.” “Phamerator needs to set up your database. Please enter your root database password.” I tried passwords for student access, faculty access and admin access none of them work. Do you know whats is going on? Can anyone help?

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hkotturi

Question - I was trying to learn using Phamerator software. I have downloaded the VirtualBox. Everything went well without any problems on my machine. But, When I try to start Phamerator, I get a message saying “”Database Setup Required.” “Phamerator needs to set up your database. Please enter your root database password.”

I tried passwords for student access, faculty access and admin access none of them work. Do you know whats is going on? Can anyone help?

Link to this post \| posted 31 Jan, 2017 23:20
GregFrederick@letu.edu	The password is "phage". There is a document here with details: http://seaphages.org/media/docs/Server_and_databases_for_Phamerator_and_Starterator.docx

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jcaoyao@gmail.com	Hello Staff, I can't move files from my computer to the VM, so I tried clicking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image…", but nothing happened, no activity occurred in the terminal window or anywhere. What could I do, please? Thank you.

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DanRussell	jcaoyao@gmail.com Hello Staff, I can't move files from my computer to the VM, so I tried clicking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image…", but nothing happened, no activity occurred in the terminal window or anywhere. What could I do, please? Thank you. Hi, you can try opening a terminal and running this command: `sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils` If that doesn't work, I'd suggest asking the internet! –Dan

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DanRussell

jcaoyao@gmail.com
Hello Staff, I can't move files from my computer to the VM, so I tried clicking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image…", but nothing happened, no activity occurred in the terminal window or anywhere. What could I do, please? Thank you.

Hi, you can try opening a terminal and running this command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils

If that doesn't work, I'd suggest asking the internet!

–Dan

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jcaoyao@gmail.com	DanRussell jcaoyao@gmail.com Hello Staff, I can't move files from my computer to the VM, so I tried clicking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image…", but nothing happened, no activity occurred in the terminal window or anywhere. What could I do, please? Thank you. Hi, you can try opening a terminal and running this command: `sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils` If that doesn't work, I'd suggest asking the internet! –Dan Thanks Dan, for it does work. Which now it asks me for the [sudo] password for seafaculty, but isn't the one you once gave me. What would the new password be?

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jcaoyao@gmail.com

DanRussell
jcaoyao@gmail.com
Hello Staff, I can't move files from my computer to the VM, so I tried clicking "Insert Guest Additions CD Image…", but nothing happened, no activity occurred in the terminal window or anywhere. What could I do, please? Thank you.

Hi, you can try opening a terminal and running this command:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils
If that doesn't work, I'd suggest asking the internet!

–Dan

Thanks Dan, for it does work. Which now it asks me for the [sudo] password for seafaculty, but isn't the one you once gave me. What would the new password be?

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jcaoyao@gmail.com	Dear Dan, would you have the password/s for the guest addition command or even the streamlining software package you wrote? They are most important for me.

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cdshaffer	The password discussed above is the password for the mysql database it is not the password if you want to run sudo commands. For sudo you use your password you used to login. But there is a more important issue. Are you logged in as SEA student or SEA faculty? The SEA student account does not have permission to do sudo commands so the seastudent password will fail. If this is the problem you should get an error message about not being in "sudoers". You have to do all this by logging into the SEA faculty account as that account has permission to run the sudo command. If you are on the seafaculty account and it is failing there is some unusual issue with your set up. If that is the case the next step is probably to post the exact steps you are on and the exact error message. Note: The password discussed above is the password for the mysql database it is not the password if you want to run sudo. You can use mysql with password phage from the seastudent account, you just cannot run the sudo command with the seastudent login password. Edited 21 Jul, 2023 19:04

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cdshaffer

The password discussed above is the password for the mysql database it is not the password if you want to run sudo commands. For sudo you use your password you used to login. But there is a more important issue.

Are you logged in as SEA student or SEA faculty? The SEA student account does not have permission to do sudo commands so the seastudent password will fail. If this is the problem you should get an error message about not being in "sudoers". You have to do all this by logging into the SEA faculty account as that account has permission to run the sudo command. If you are on the seafaculty account and it is failing there is some unusual issue with your set up. If that is the case the next step is probably to post the exact steps you are on and the exact error message.

Note: The password discussed above is the password for the mysql database it is not the password if you want to run sudo. You can use mysql with password phage from the seastudent account, you just cannot run the sudo command with the seastudent login password.

Edited 21 Jul, 2023 19:04

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jcaoyao@gmail.com	Thank you Sir. My case is precisely seafaculty account and failing. Every day it says like sorry, try again. 275Kb

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