I just wanted to try the new features in Fedora. Installation is very easy but guest additions installation is little difficult. Anyhow, I figured out and this post shows how to install Fedora 13 on VirtualBox with working Fedora 13 VirtualBox guest additions.
You need working network on guest with downloading access.
I’m using VB 3.2.0 in Windows XP 32 Bit host.
Download the Fedora 13 ISO file here
Installation Steps for Fedora 13 on VirtualBox
1) Create a new virtual machine.
Operating System – Linux, Version Fedora.
2) Allocate memory, create new disk and complete other steps.
3) Go to Display settings and allocate display memory. Enable 3D to get better display performance.
4) You can enable processor cores and PAE features too.
5) Mount Fedora 13 ISO file to CD drive of virtual machine ( add to media manager first)
6) Start machine. Select first option and boot.
7) Select automatic log in and press login. This is the live CD which we can run like this without installing to hard disk. But, our purpose is to install permanently on virtual disk. Click on Install to Hard drive as shown below.
8.) Continue the Fedora installation on VirtualBox. Its easy with instruction. I’m not going to cover each step.
9) Once installation completed successfully, check the network especially Internet access with download. I configured bridged network and it worked out of the box.
10) Now, Lets install VirtualBox Guest additions for fedora 13. Open Terminal and login as root.
Install Fedora 13 VirtualBox Guest Additions
11) First update the kernel by typing following command.
yum -y update kernel
This will download and update the kernel.
12) Type following command after above installation completed.
yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++
Once installation completed, restart the fedora 13 VM.
13) Wait a moment, VB guest additions not installed yet. Go to devices in VirtualBox console, select Install Guest additions. It will mount built in ISO file.
14) Open terminal, log in as root and go inside Vboxadditions CD ( /media/VBox Additions CD)which you can see on desktop. Run following command from CD.
sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
Make sure all components installed OK without any failure.
15) That’s it. Installation done. Restart the VM. To confirm the proper installation VirtualBox guest additions, you can check seamless mode and increasing screen size of VM.
Read more about Seamless mode in VB.
Share your issues on installing guest additions.
That worked pretty well for me, thanks
I was having issues for some reason I just reinstalled fedora and followed this guide and it worked
If anyone is trying to access shared folder just use
# mount.vboxsf [the_name_of_the_shared_folder] /media/[name_of_mount_point]
Thats great. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for creating and posting these instructions!
I do everything you said. There wasn’t any fail in the installation process, but “guest additions” doesn’t work. My VirtualBox runs under Ubuntu 10.04. Do I need anything else?
Same as Aldo but I’m using gentoo as host.
Seamless Mode and Guest Display Auto-resize options in Machine menu are not enabled.
Any suggestions?
Hey guy,
Have u tried deleting and creating VM all over again? It worked for me give it a try once and see if that helps u
Great guide, works like a charm! Thanks
I installed Fedora 13 and everything works great except the guest additions. I tried installing and I even deleted the virtual machine a couple of time and the guest additions stil fail to install.What should I do???
@phillyitalian88, Is internet working on guest and host with downloading access? then, it should not be a problem.
Great tut, followed it step by step Fedora13 + Additions all working.
Many thanks for your time in putting this guide together.
Well Done
Regards
Steve
Thanks for posting this up.
Great, clear instructions that did the job perfectly.
Thanks for taking the time to contribute it.
Worked Great! The only issue I had was actually pulling up the directory that the file was in but I did some searching and figured it out. I am brand new to all this but it was a great learning experience. Thanks
Worked like a charm – thanks for the post… I liked the item #13
installing kernel-devel might install a wrong version. Make sure the version as in uname -r gets installed. You can check the /usr/src/kernels folder. If the same source version as in uname -r is not there find and install it.
@Jaco,
Thanks for the information, new to me.
Thank you. I followed your directions and have 13 running full screen on VirtualBox
Thank you. I’m running Fedora under Virtual Box on Debian Lenny, and I found your instructions on how to install Guest Additions very helpful.
Thank you. I tried this in a Fedora 14 VM in VirtualBox 4.0 in Ubuntu Linux. It works, I also tried compiz, but VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run is now VBoxLinuxAdditions.run in VirtualBox 4.0.
Thanks for letting us know the new command.
I didn’t try in VB 4 yet.
hello,
Been trying to install Vbox addition on a Fedora 14 VM without success as I am not very good with the prompt have done the following: the cd logo is on the destop then try launch it with auto-run did not work then double click on it that worked and can see the content of the cd then choose ” vboxLinuxAdditions-x86.run” once selected I have 4 choices: run in terminal/display/cancel/run have choose “run in terminal once the integrity check is done the second action is ” decompressing VboxLinuxAddition….” then treminal shuts down and nothing is happening.
have use that for LInux Ubuntu works very well only under fedora cannot have it working
Any suggestions
Stephane,
Have you done the all yum updates.
For Fedora 14, I think better you can check below post specially made for it,
http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora-14-virtualbox-working-guest-additions
Dinesh,
I did some but most important i updated VB to ver 4 then I add one improvement I can select autoresize guest display now with a huge loss of quality but still cannot select ” seemless mode” that update generated an error that was corrected when i updated the extension pack.. will check the link in you post and if no improvements gonna cancel that virtual disk and start over..
Maybe it is trying to show the error in the terminal which shuts down immediately after showing it? Try opening a terminal from the menu, cd to the mount point of the guest additions, then run ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
Well as I said in first post I am not good with typing in the prompt can follow an example otherwise got nothing working at all..lol
was able to update the yum as describe in Dinesh link as th eexample gives out all the lines to type from opening the terminal to the end result..
Even after updating the yum still do not have it running and there is a message that flashes after I try to run the addition in the terminal but it is so fast that I cannot read it..
Stephane,
Thanks for your inputs. Glad finally you fixed the issue.
Special thanks to your email.
hi dinesh!!
when i tried to update kernel.it gives me error(cannot retrieve repository meta data, for repository fedora: please verify its path and try again.), while internet is working fine on my OS.its fedora13. any guidance in this regard will be highly appreciated.
THanks.
Well good news after few research on how to type command in the terminal magaged to get the packages installed and all is working fine now..
thanks for your answer and help
i’ve done with it. thx dag