Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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hellmaster
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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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My VB version is 5.1.14. Right now I'm leaving it as it is, because your advices helped me to make it running. After a new release comes out, I'll give it a try. :-)

Thx a lot for your help!
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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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This morning Fedora 25 updated kernel to kernel-4.9.12-200.fc25, and selinux policy to selinux-policy-3.13.1-225.11.fc25 and now VBGA works in enforcing mode.
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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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socratis wrote:
hellmaster wrote:Also what are the pros/cons of Gnome Classic?
That, I don't have the slightest idea, and it's not really a VirtualBox question either. The only thing I know is that I have been bitten by this as well. I didn't see what your VirtualBox version is (you should have posted it), but the test builds have fixed that problem. See: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
I am pretty sure this was never a VirtualBox problem, but an Selinux problem.
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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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Backrow wrote:I am pretty sure this was never a VirtualBox problem, but an Selinux problem.
Then why did the same Fedora version worked with a different VirtualBox version? A VirtualBox workaround for SELinux and the "new" Gnome WM? It could have been simply a display driver issue. But, only the comparison of the SVN could tell for sure: https://www.virtualbox.org/timeline

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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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If I had time for that, I'd be day trading :lol:
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Re: Fedora25 - Guest additions failure

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Backrow wrote:This morning Fedora 25 updated kernel to kernel-4.9.12-200.fc25, and selinux policy to selinux-policy-3.13.1-225.11.fc25 and now VBGA works in enforcing mode.
Works for me partialy... As socratis mentioned in a previous post, I need to disable 3D acceleration in VirtualBox to run under Gnome, otherwise I get stuck in infinite login loop... However I'm able to install VBGA and run in enforcing mode... :-)

Thx for confirmation,
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