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I've installed as a guest OS FC-13 on my OpenSuse 11.2 machine. I can not get the guest additions to work. I've added them by accessing the psuedo DVD and running the guest additions install script. The modules all do compile correctly and no errors are generated. I can see that the devices are there when I run "lsmod" within the FC-13 VM. The VM works but I can not expand the window it is in and I have to click the mouse to use it in the VM and I have to press the special key to release the mouse back to the host OS.

What should I be checking? I've already had a look at the VM logs under "/var/log" and there are no errors there either.

Cheers!!

What version of VBox are you using?
If it is lower then 3.2.0 you need to create and add this to the xorg.conf file.

This is where it gets weird, I can't find the xorg.conf file. I can find the /etc/X11 directory but there is no typical (or at least what I have seen to be typical) xorg.conf file nor the usual files I would expect to see. I did not look into this directory before the installation of the guest additions. Did Fedora Core reorganise their way of setting up the X11 configuration files?

X does run and seems to run correctly for the basic install. It's running Kde and is fully functional so X is running and there are no errors in the log files.

Cheers!!

I am having the same problem with vbox 3.1.8 on a windows 7 host. I see that 3.2.0 is available, but when I check for an upgrade the site says I have the latest version. My Fedora 13 installation did not have an xorg.conf so I created one in /etc/X11 and put in the suggested lines. But this did not seem to have any positive impact. Does anyone have other suggestions. I am pretty much a neophyte with linux so perhaps I need to have more than the lines in the previous post in my xorg.conf for it to be read properly.

Fedora like most have deprecated the xorg.conf. You will need to create it, then add the information to it.
VBox 3.2.0 does this for you if you want to update and install the new guest additions. A reboot is necessary for the changes to take effect.
It should work in older version though as I had to do this before they released the newer version of VirtualBox.
The latest Vbox (PUEL) is located here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I just looked through the guest tools install howto. The howto listed a number of packages that were required, of which I had all but the patch package installed. The guest additions install run shell script did not complain but even so I went ahead and installed the patch package and re-installed the guest additions. But this did not help either.

An Update:
I went ahead and installed 3.2.0. This finally solved the problem. I now have Tools working.

I have the screen working correctly now but I don't have the mouse working correctly. I can use the "special key" to map the mouse in and out of the screen area. How do I get it to work seamlessly between host and guest?

Cheers!!

Works here.

Host: WinXP, VBox 3.2.0

Please make sure you use 3.2.0... and re-install Linux Additions.