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Hi all,

I'm trying to learn Linux so yesterday I installed Fedora 18 KDE live cd on VirtualBox.

I have two questions:

1. When I go to "full screen" it still shows black bars on each side, like in a light box. There's another option, I forgot what it was called, but that caused the screen image to stretch to fill the screen but it was blurry and distorted. I'm using a 14" laptop with Windows 7. How can I get the full screen to work properly?

2. How can I install different desktop environments? The only one I see is the blue with the widgets.

Thanks in advance

This should help Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions

I had Googled some stuff and saw somethiing about guest additions, but when I tried the commands it said something about "you need to be logged in as root".

I don't understand how to do that...it's just me and I checked the box to give my user "admin priveleges".

How do I log in as root?

put "sudo" in front of any command you want to run.
Example : sudo apt-get install dkms

It will prompt you for your password, and then run the command as root with the correct privileges

Thank you...

So far, I ran the command

"sudo yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-develd"

and then I think it did some stuff and then it said something like

"yum install gcc"

or something like that.

So anyhow, I did that, and it installed a bunch of stuff, asking me a few questions along the way.

So then the next thing is to install the Guest Additions, and this is where I'm running into a stumbling block.

I originally had installed the Fedora using an iso file called "Fedora-18-i686-Live-KDE.iso". I had to mount it to the drive, then it took a few tries before I realized I had to unmount it to finish installing it.

Then somewhere along the way it must have gotten mounted again, because when I went into Virtualbox and Install Guest Additions, it said something like "Unable to unmount the CD/DVD image..."

Right now, in Virtualbox, when I put my mouse pointer over the Storage settings, it says "IDE Primary Master: [CD/DVD] VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (54.74MB).

But when I hover over the disc icon in the task bar at the bottom of the screen in Fedora, and I right-click, the second to the last option says "Fedora-18-i686-Live-KDE.iso" and the last option says "Remove disk from virtual drive." But when I try to do that, I get the same "Unable to unmount the CD/DVD image C:/ProgramFiles/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from the machine Fedora. Would you like to force unmounting of this medium?"

I know I'm adding a lot of detail but I'm a clueless newbie here. How can I have two different iso files? I don't remember downloading a Guest Additions iso...how did it get there?

And what is the next set of commands I'm supposed to run or what am I supposed to do to get the Guest Additions installed? Or are they already installed????

I did it, I got the Guest Additions installed.

However, I had to tweak those instructions...

I decided to start over. I started off with the same command I was given before:

"sudo yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-develd"

and it installed a lot of stuff...then I think somewhere along the way, it gave me an error.

So what it did was list all the possible commands that I could have meant. One of those commands was "update".

So I ran:

"sudo yum update"

Boy, was that a big job! It did a huge amount of updates.

I went through that whole process, then shut down the computer.

Then I removed any disk image that was attached. Then when I restarted and logged back in, I re-mounted the disk image for the Guest Additions.

The commands in the instructions didn't work for me, so....

I opened the File Manager, and the disk image for the Guest Additions was on the left. I clicked that, and to the right showed the contents.

I double-clicked on "autorun.sh" and it asked for my root password.

Put that in, and it installed the Guest Additions!'

Restarted, and now the screen views properly in Full Screen mode.

Now to learn Fedora....

Just read your success story. I have been struggling all day on this one.
I did all the updates just as you did. all went OK.
I have a cd with the guest additions on it in ISO form.
that mounts ok.
I am running Windows 7 as the Host machine. 64bit.
I am trying to install the GA on Fedora 18 64bit.
My problem seems to be in the mount cmd and perhaps the if the dir. are installed in the right place.
What are you running as for the Host and the guest?
Maynard

SUCESS!!!
I brought the guest screen and terminal. went thru all steps again.
then brought up this sites forum and re read your notes etc. and I had remembered using file manager and seeing that .sh file and wala! it worked just fine.
now to see if the same thing will work with Suse 12.3
Maynard

Hi Maynard,

I'm glad everything worked out for you.