[Solved] Fedora 29 - guest additions shared folders

[socratis]

Hi

I have updated my VM Fedora to Fedora 29 and have VBox 5.22.
The guest additions is partly working what I can see.
Resizing of window, and bi-directional clipboard are ok,

The problem is shared folders that does not connect.
Also I get the error message when I try to re-install guest-additions
that: modprobe vboxsf failed.

I have tried to boot VM with an earlier kernel, but that does not work either.
What I can see VBox 5.22 run kernel 4.19 which would be sufficient I guess.

Thanks

[socratis]

Also I get the error message when I try to re-install guest-additions that: modprobe vboxsf failed.

That's a red-herring, it's not an actual error.

The problem is shared folders that does not connect.

Can you elaborate? Auto-mount or manual? Do you get an error message? And you never mentioned your host BTW.

[janpeter]

It is auto-mount on the folders.
I use macOS 10.13.6 as host

[janpeter]

Here I also include screen-shot of error message when the guest-addition script is done as well as the corresponding log-file.
I have done this several times and get the same thing. I have no problem to get his all working with Ubuntu. But Fedora is always difficult.
There is also an article in Fedora magazine 2017-03-20 https://fedoramagazine.org/install-fedo ... box-guest/
But also this description here is incomplete and does not lead to a functioning installation for me.

Thanks for you help!

[janpeter]

And here the error text on the screen after running the guest addition script. Files in opposite order and two posts but I hope you get it!

[janpeter]

Try again

[RonaldIsIT]

Fedora 29 is compiling well for me.

Is the package elfutils-libelf-devel installed on your Fedora?
The error message is pointining that out.

There is also a reference to an fc27 package in your screenshot. Was the system upgraded?

[janpeter]

I have only done an automatic upgrade from pervious Fedora 28 (that also did not work concerning shared folders).
And I have done the commands given in Fedora magazine 2017-03-20 I referent to. Nothing else.

How do I do this two installation you mention? What would the commands from the command line be?

[socratis]

How do I do this two installation you mention?

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sudo yum install elfutils-libelf-devel

Google is your friend, don't be afraid to use it...

[janpeter]

Works. Thanks a lot!

[socratis]

Glad you finally got it going. Marking as [Solved].

[janvlug]

See here some additional information:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576585#c1