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.