Guest Additions installation problem

[ahaider7]

Hi guyz,

I have installed Fedora 13 as a guest OS in virtualbox, on a windows host. I need to share files between host and the guest. For this purpose, i first tried to install Guest Additions in linux but I am stuck at this step.

While installing the Guest Additions, I get this message

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Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [FAILED]
Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.
Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.  Once you have corrected it, you can
run

  /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

to build them.
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]

Looking at the file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log, here is the error message

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Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again..  Stop.
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

How can I remove this error. I have these packages already installed (all of same version)
kernel
kernel-devel
kernel-headers

[fixedwheel]

its all in the Forums HowTo

[ahaider7]

its all in the Forums HowTo

I am already following this guide but my problem is not mentioned there. I have no issue with X server, rather I am stuck at stage of Install the GA.

[fixedwheel]

post the output of:

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rpm -qa|grep kernel

[ahaider7]

post the output of:

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rpm -qa|grep kernel

Thanks for you help. Here it the output

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abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.1.13-2.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686

[fixedwheel]

... and please:

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uname -r

i think you are running one of:
kernel-PAE-2.6.33.3-85 (no matching ...-headers and ...-devel package)
... or kernel-PAE-2.6.34.7-56 (no matching kernel-PAE-devel package)

anyway, just do:

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yum install kernel-PAE-devel

if you are running the 2.6.33 PAE kernel: reboot; otherwise go ahead w/ the next try to install GA

[ahaider7]

Thanx a lot man. Installing kernel-PAE-devel does the job. Guest Additions is successfully installed.

But my problem is still not solved completely . Next step is mounting the shared folder in linux host. I tried the command

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mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/win

but it results in

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/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

Any Idea whats going on?

[Sasquatch]

The error is noted in my Howto: Use Shared Folders. It can also mean that you're trying to share a private folder, like My Documents or your profile folder and that Windows is not allowing access. Share a different folder, like a subfolder.

[ahaider7]

Thanx. I found it was naming problem.