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Hi,

I have VirtualBox 2.2.4 installed on Windows XP host. The guest OS is Fedora 11 (32 bit). When I try to install the Guest Additions, I get the following error that I am not being able to troubleshoot. Please help me.

[root@matrix ~]# /media/VBOXADDITIONS_2.2.4_47978/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 2.2.4 Guest Additions for Linux installation..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
VirtualBox 2.2.4 Guest Additions installation
Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.
The current kernel version is 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586
This system does not seem to have support for OpenGL direct rendering.
VirtualBox requires Linux 2.6.27 or later for this. Please see the log
file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log if your guest uses Linux 2.6.27 and you still see this message.
Problems were found which would prevent the Guest Additions from installing.
Please correct these problems and try again.

But my kernel version is:
[root@matrix ~]# uname -a
Linux matrix 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Also, I have enable 3D acceleration in the virtual machine settings, although I have only onboard Intel graphics card.

Thanks for any response.

Oops! I was too quick in posting. The problem was indicated in the message "Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel." I had to install the kernel-devel package and the installation went smoothly.

I had to install the kernel-devel package and the installation went smoothly.

Just a note to indicate that you will need to upgrade the *-devel package together with the kernel (when and if), as the Additions will be (auto-magically) re-compiled!