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............................................................
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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.

The fix works fine but I also see there’s a new rpm package available that has the tap functionality added back (yes, if you read this comment on the bug report it seems that it was intentionally removed and is not a bug!)

• While installing I managed to crash the Anaconda installer, this happened while I was trying to set up custom partitioning. After I let Anaconda decide the default partitions and then edit the results all worked as normal.
  I was also unable to save the crash report so no chance of logging a bug report. I have to say that this is the first time that I’ve ever manged to crash Anaconda and I’ve been using it since Fedora Core 4.
• Anaconda is now able to resize partitions during install but it seems to be only able to do this with NTFS and ext2/3 partitions. I have a FAT32 partition that was not recognized at all, seems strange it supports NTFS but not FAT32.
• gdmsetup is not available at all since the new login manager was introduced, this seems like a backwards step since now I have to learn how to use GDM configuration.
• The new Add/Remove software application called PackageKit looks nice but is very slow and basic. There no way to queue installs so you have to install them one by one while waiting for the display to refresh the package list after each install.
  It also seems to take a long time to update the package list plus the search function only works within a package group, not globally, so if you don’t know where your package belongs it’s very hard to find.
• I tried to set up Nautilus to use single clicks but after clicking a directory in the left pane it would not refresh the directory contents in the right pane. Setting it back to double click fixed the problem.
• My synaptics touchpad stopped responding to taps, it seems this is a known issue with a possible fix here. I’ll try this later but still pretty bad it doesn’t work ‘out of the box’.
• I sometimes get SELinux denial messages generated by NetworkManager. I’ve used SELinux for at least 3 releases without problems so this was a surprise. I also got more denials actually caused by running the SElinux Administration (semodule) itself, something about accessing /home/username/.xsession_error!

Hopefully these issues get ironed out soon and I’m aware that it’s a very new release but I’ve actually never had so many problems with other Fedora releases and I’ve installed every once since Fedora Core 4 within a day or two of the initial release date.

Update – the SELinux problem is a real nightmare, I run Apache and MySQL which initially worked fine but without changing anything it has suddenly stopped working due to SELinux. I’m getting a bunch of errors like this:

SELinux is preventing httpd (httpd_t) "connectto" to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (unconfined_t).

Until I work this out I’ll have to set SELinux to premissive mode by running /usr/sbin/setenforce 0.

Most people would think I’m nuts to do this (my girlfriend certainly does) but I get a strange pleasure out of installing a new release and wiping out the old.

I know I’ll have a few issues on the way (Apache always trips me up at some point even though I’ve got all my conf files backed up) but I’ve found that I’ve got much better at getting my system up and running again.

I’ve thought about setting my home partition on a separate partiton so I can save it between installs but having tried this once it just turned into a mess so now I just recover important files from backup after the install.