Virtualbox Without Fedora 9 Guest Additions
May 27th, 2008Using Virtualbox 1.6 you cannot install guest additions support when using a Fedora 9 guest. Yet another consequence of using leading edge distributions that have a release candidate of Xorg. Hopefully the next update of Virtualbox will rectify this situation.
Here’s the output when you try to install the guest additions:
# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation............................................................ ........................................................................ ......................................... VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions installation which: no dkms in (/usr/bin:/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin) Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module... Building the shared folder support kernel module... Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions... Detected Xorg 1.5 RCx, refusing to install the Xorg modules. We will provide updated guest additions once Xorg 1.5.0 was released finally. Please check the vbox-users mailing list for further announcements. Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions. You must restart your guest system in order to complete the installation.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hello from Spain:
I have a problem when I try to install de guest additions in a Fedora 9.
When I type ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run, the system don´t detect the header and source files of my kernel, and I have then installed.
I have installed kernel-devel, gcc, make, dkms, but the software don´t run
¿How can I do?
Thanks
June 13th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Hi Crokan,
what’s the error message you get when trying to install. Plus what’s the output from running:
$ rpm -qa|grep kernel
Bob Peers
June 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Hello:
I install kernel-headers and now the guest additions compile, but when I reboot the system, I don´t have the mouse and desktop (monitor) integration.
I see that in the startup process the virtualbox kernel module start correctly.
Thanks