Fedora 23 and VirtualBox: VBox Guest Additions not working properly

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Thu Nov 5 16:00:11 UTC 2015


Am 05.11.2015 um 16:41 schrieb SternData:
> On 11/05/2015 09:11 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>> I have just upgraded to 23 from 22 in a virtual machine using dnf as
>> decribed in the Fedora Wiki, which went rather smoothly for me.
>>
>> After manually installing the Guest Additions, the features "seemless
>> windows" and "automatic resize of the guest desktop" don't work (the
>> respective options in the views menu are greyed out).
>>
>> The VBox kernel modules are built ok, but I get a warning saying:
>> "unsupported pre-release version of X.Org server installed. Not
>> installing the X.Org drivers."
>>
>> The X log says that there is X.Org X Server 1.17.99.902 installed, which
>> *is* a pre-release. I guess downgrading might cure the problem, but how?
>>
>> Any advice from the wise persons on this list would be greatly 
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
> Are you using VirtualBox from the virtualbox repos or from rpmfusion? 
> I'm using the VirtualBox repo version (Oracle version) and it's 
> working for me.
I am using the VBox repo version as well (to be precise: 
VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.8_103449_fedora22-1.x86_64).


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