

scottgus1 Site Moderator Posts: 16895 Joined: 30. And use the ISO that came with Virtualbox t o install the GAs.

But having the GAs be ahead of the main VB, that could go pear-shaped soon.Īs an example, when the GAs were causing shared folder issues recently, the devs didn't put out just new GAs, they put out a whole test-build of the entire Virtualbox program, GAs included.ĭon't allow installing of new GAs without installing the matching version of Virtualbox. Allowing the GAs to fall behind the main VB version isn't bad for a while. If you change the GAs to a newer version with different capabilities, the host Virtualbox software won't know what the GAs are doing and problems will develop. Its included in the VirtualBox installation download. As the developers update capabilities they put these capabilities in both the main Virtualbox and the GAs ISO. Software that has to work with partner software has to know what the partner is doing. sudo lsmod | grep vboxĬongratulations, you have now installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions on your Fedora machine.It is not good to go downloading GAs besides the version that comes with the Virtualbox installer. Step 12) After your system restarts, you can check if the VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed successfully using the below command. If you are using VM Virtalbox Version 6.0.0 (Qt5.6.2) or later select Optical Drives (for older versions its called ‘ CD/DVD Devices ‘) uncheck VBoxGuestAdditions.iso 3. For a relatively full install, allocate at. So easy steps to achieve the Full Screen functionality are as follows 1. Next the virtual hard disk wizard will start.

Memory should be at least 768MB for a graphical install to work. Follow the steps below in order to build VBox additions in Oracle software. Step 11) Reboot your machine to apply changes. Create a New Virtual Machine (VM) with the Virtual Machine Wizard, choosing Linux for the OS Type and Red Hat or Red Hat (64 bit) for the Operating System. Step 10) At last, you should find a message like the below one. Vbox Guest Additions Will Start Installation

Step 8) Authentication is required, use your sudo password to continue. Click the Run button to start the Virtual Box Guest Additions installation. Step 7) The package should auto-run automatically, as shown below. From the top menu of your running virtual machine click the Devices menu and choose to Install the Guest Additions CD image. Step 6) Now, let’s mount the Virtual Box Guest Additions. export KERN_DIR Export The KERN_DIR Environment Variable Step 5) Export the kernel directory environment variable. KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r` Add The KERN_DIR Environment Variable Step 4) Add the kernel directory environment variable. dnf install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl libxcrypt-compat Install Required Packages After your system starts, install the following required packages via the Fedora Terminal. Step 2) Reboot your Fedora machine to apply changes, run the reboot command in your terminal, and your computer will restart automatically. dnf update kernel* Update Your Fedora Kernel Step 1) Ensure that you are using the latest available kernel for your Fedora.
