Gauge wrote:Open up a terminal window and enter "su" and your password to get to root access. Then use the following commands:
yum install gcc
yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers
These are the bits the installer needs in order to compile the drivers. The Guest Additions should install now. Before this, however, I'd strongly recommend installing and running the Display Config manager as this will create a file that, if not present, will cause you big headaches once the guest additions are installed:
yum install system-config-display
system-config-display
Thanks for the help, but these files already got installed when I followed the guide of
Sasquatch. Just to make sure I actually tried to install them again, but got told by Fedora that they were already there.
Now - Sasquatch gave me a reference to a page in the Linux Hosts-part of the forum. I think I might have found the thread (
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20967) and the info quoted below (please correct me if I'm wrong about that):
the main problem why the kernel modules are not compiling is because it can't find the kernel source here "/lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE/build" or here "/lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE/source"
it seams these two are links pointing out to "/usr/src/kernels/kernelver" and the shortcut is wrong the destination is not there
and when u use yum to install the kernel devel and headers it always installs the wrong ver so the shortcut remains pointing no were
so what u have to do is this use the command "uname -r" to find the kernel ver and then search for the kernel devel rpm for this kernel and download it and install it, if its a PAE kernel then it looks like this kernel 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE.rpm
after u install it make sure the shortcuts point to the right place then run "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" it will take a little while and then presto ur in business no restart needed
I did the "uname -r" and it answered: 2.6.31.5-127.fc.i686.PAE
Then I'm stuck - again. I simply don't know where/how to find this thing. (marked in italics in my quote?)
- Did I say "thank you guys for your patience"?