Issue with guest additions on Fedora13 in Virtualbox

08-05-2010, 04:00 AM

Hi,

I am trying to install guest additions on the fedora 13 in my virtual box..

ran the VB.....sh file from /media/VBox..../ as root

and below was the result

********************************

Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.2.6 Guest Additions for Linux........

VirtualBox Guest Additions installer

Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]

Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.

Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong. Once you have corrected it, you can

run

/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

to build them.

****************************************

and the log file

cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log

Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.

Creating user for the Guest Additions.

Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

why is it failing...

Also after the update the screen size has increased (screen resolution is 1024 *768) ; i see the scroll bars (both horizontal & vertical); how can I have the screen without any scrolls..

My host OS is Windows XP -> screen resolution is 1280 * 720

Regards

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08-05-2010, 02:16 PM

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 04:00 +0000, Aneesh K raj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install guest additions on the fedora 13 in my virtual
> box..
>
> ran the VB.....sh file from /media/VBox..../ as root
>
> and below was the result
>
> ********************************
> Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.2.6 Guest Additions for Linux........
> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
> Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]
> Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.
> Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong. Once
> you have corrected it, you can
> run

yum install kernel-devel

[..]
> My host OS is Windows XP -> screen resolution is 1280 * 720

I presume you mean your *guest* OS is Windows. Your host OS is Linux.

poc

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08-05-2010, 04:45 PM

On 5 August 2010 07:16, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 04:00 +0000, Aneesh K raj wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install guest additions on the fedora 13 in my virtual
>> box..
>>
>> ran the VB.....sh file from /media/VBox..../ as root
>>
>> and below was the result
>>
>> ********************************
>> Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.2.6 Guest Additions for Linux........
>> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
>> Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]
>> Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.
>> Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong. Once
>> you have corrected it, you can
>> run
>
> yum install kernel-devel

Shouldn't kernel-headers be enough?

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08-05-2010, 06:34 PM

my host operating system is windows XP and within Vbox i installed fedora.

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:03:29 +0530 wrote

>On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 04:00 +0000, Aneesh K raj wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I am trying to install guest additions on the fedora 13 in my virtual

> box..

>

> ran the VB.....sh file from /media/VBox..../ as root

>

> and below was the result

>

> ********************************

> Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.2.6 Guest Additions for Linux........

> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer

> Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]

> Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.

> Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong. Once

> you have corrected it, you can

> run

yum install kernel-devel

[..]

> My host OS is Windows XP -> screen resolution is 1280 * 720

I presume you mean your *guest* OS is Windows. Your host OS is Linux.

poc

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08-05-2010, 06:39 PM

On 05/08/10 19:34, Aneesh K raj wrote:
> my host operating system is windows XP and within Vbox i installed fedora.
>

Is possible the Vbox mailing list you need,
as probelms might be caused by the Windows version of VBox.

Apologies, cannot be of further help.

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08-05-2010, 07:40 PM

On 8/5/2010 2:39 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 05/08/10 19:34, Aneesh K raj wrote:
>> my host operating system is windows XP and within Vbox i installed fedora.
>>
>
> Is possible the Vbox mailing list you need,
> as probelms might be caused by the Windows version of VBox.
>
> Apologies, cannot be of further help.

Frank is correct on the list.

VirtualBox user discussions list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community

However all of your questions can be answered by the Virtualbox Docs.
They are very complete and easy to understand. One of the better Docs
that I have seen.

Try the Help feature.

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08-05-2010, 08:14 PM

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:45 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> > yum install kernel-devel
>
> Shouldn't kernel-headers be enough?

>From "rpm -qi kernel-devel":

This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to
build modules against the kernel package.

poc

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08-06-2010, 01:46 AM

On 5 August 2010 13:14, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:45 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
>> > yum install kernel-devel
>>
>> Shouldn't kernel-headers be enough?
>
> >From "rpm -qi kernel-devel":
>
> * * * *This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to
> * * * *build modules against the kernel package.
>

Thanks. I have been unable to check this myself as my Fedora desktop
is down for over a week because of faulty RAM modules.

> poc
>

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