Fedora 12 and Guest additions.

[simon.hibbs]

Ok, so I got my Fedora 12 KDE VM working as previously posted, but today it booted to a blank screen. It looks like the boot process was hanging at some point, although the Fedora startup progress bar completed, I think Linux is running and it responds correctly to a shutdown signal. So I blew it away, booted from the ISO again, re-installed and applied updates. Now I have exactly the same thing happen again. The VBox.log hangs at:

00:00:51.435 SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 1

Anyone else having this problem?

[hanske72]

I have VB 3.012
Guest Fedora 12
Same problem as everyone here.

What did it for me:

#yum install kernel-PAE-devel.i686
#yum remove kernel-devel
#sh /media/VBOXADD.../VBox...run

I have been removing and instaling and rebooting (gcc, kernel-devel and kernel-headers).

Good luck trying if this helps you!

[jschutz7]

I had the same problem with Fedora 12 Gnome on a Windows Vista host.
I installed Guest Additions and it worked fine. The next time I booted it hung with same VBox.log message.
SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 1

Also, (if hit "Insert" while booting) I see it hangs at
"Starting adt:"

I saw hanske72 response.
I'm reluctant to do this since I'm not sure exactly what it's doing.
Also, how can I run yum if my system is hanging and I have no command prompt ?
I'm also using VirtualBox 3.1.2 (a later version than hanske72 is using)- not sure if that matters.

Any other suggestions ?

Thanks

[masterix]

firebug and simon.hibbs are right

1- Uninstall all kernel-devel versions with rpm -e kernel-devel (all versions installed will be listed)
Repeat rpm -e kernel-devel for each version
For example: rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686

2- Install the correct version:
yum install kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686
or
yum install kernel-devel-${uname -r}

uname -r returns the kernel version.

Answer y[es] when asked.

3- Install guest additions again and reboot.

[richard.hodges7]

Just to confirm that this worked for me.

Host system is Ubuntu 9.04
Guest OS is Fedora 13 Desktop

Thanks for the help