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Hi

I have just made a clean install of Fedora 24 (Scientific Spin using KDE) and seems to work.
However, guest-additions seems not to install in a correct way. I follows some Youtube- guide
and used terminal to install guest additions (as root user) using command /VBoxLinuxAddtions.run
and get attached error message that point to a log-file and that log-file also attached.
I have used VBox for many years with little problems, but I am new to use Fedora.
Host machine is Mac OS X 10.11.6 and VBox 5.0.26.

Find some similar posts here but not similar enough for me to solve the problem.

Appreciate some input!

The error indicates you do not have the kernel headers and kernel devel installed that matches your running kernel. Correct that and it should install and work properly.

Thanks. Actually I needed to do the following commands

su
yum install kernel-devel-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64
sudo dnf install kernel-revel kernel-headers
cd /run/media/janpeter ./VBoxLinuxAdditions

shut down VM
remove GuestAddtions.iso from the /Storage/Controller:IDE
start again

Now guest addition works, except shared folders, where I get problems with permissions.
I looked in VirtualBox manual section 4.2.2.1 about Installing the Linux Guest Additions.
I am not totally convinced that what I have described above corresponds to what is referred to here
and to page 37 for host installation that should be follows. Let me know!

But I did the check
su
rcvboxadd setup

Got OK for different items, and then recommended re-start of VM.
The problem with guest additions remained

PS. I think this thread belongs to Linux Guests (and not Hosts).
I thought I actually did post it under Linux Guests, but could have done a misstake.
Good if someone could move the thread to the more appropriate place.
I also suspect that all people installing Fedora 24 as guest need to go through this exercise.

Hi

I found out that the problem with the shared folder is about permissions
and the following command in the Fedora guest worked:

$ sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf username
(and username should be the actual username in the guest)

Then a restart of the Fedora-guest to make the command to take action.

This time I made before a clean installation of Fedora 25 (with Gnome 3.22 this time) following the guide on
this youtube video:

https://linux-video-tutorials.blogspot. ... albox.html

Now I think everyone can install Fedora 25 in Virtual Box !

Jan Peter