VirtualBox GA 3.1.0 on Fedora 12

[jgdevries]

I constantly get a 'modprobe vboxguest failed' with an installation of VBoxGuestAdditions.

I have no clue where to start looking for the problem. It seems that all necessary packages are installed, checked that on several forums.

Any help? Tomorrow I will check and respond.

[scottro]

Are you sure that guest additions installed correctly on the guest?

Which is the guest and which is the host? I'm guessing (guesting?) that the guest is Fedora.

[jgdevries]

Scottro, I've a Vista Host and I'm testing several Linux distro's to make a choice for a preferred desktop in VDI virtualization projects. I'm using VBox as a virtualization technology on my desktop.
openSolaris, openSuSE, Ubuntu, CentOS (yes looking at server products as well for other projects..), FreeBSD are all installing fine, but F12 is somehow more picky than all other.
Since there is any CentOS 5.4 and F12 familiarity I didn't expect this.

I install F12, reboot, install necessary packages like gcc, make, kernel-xxxx, glibc-xxxx etc. Reboot, Update, Reboot and then try to install the VBox GA's. During the installation it comes with a message that a my system 'does not seem to be setup to build kernel modules [FAILED]' and that I can look in the logfile at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log. Window System drivers and X.Org Server 1.7 modules, Graphic Libraries and Desktop services install fine.

The only message in the logfile is in the 1st post: 'modprobe vboxguest failed'
Many forums on the internet only speak of modprobe vboxdrvr or modprobe vboxfls failed.

To me it seems that I still miss an essential library in F12 for the installation of VBox.
But in the VBox Forums, nobody seems to have problems with this with F12 only with the older Fedora versions and with different modprobe vbox drivers. So no clue there.

Hope this explains more in detail so you understand.

[Hlingler]

Refer: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php...ition_on_Linux

HTH,
V

P.S. I have F8 x86 Host with F12 x86 Guest, and VBox Guest Additions installed and perform flawlessly: 3D/DRI graphics rendering, Compiz, the whole I-Kandi and all. Hmm...

[scottro]

Unfortunately, if you have a PAE kernel, that document is wrong. Sigh, Linux documenters are so often sloppy.....



What seems to be missing is kernel-devel which is separate from the kernel package.

However, if you have the PAE kernel, which you probably do if it's not 64 bit Fedora, rather than kernel-deve, you'll have to install kernel-PAE-devel.

Please post the output of the command

uname -r

if this isn't clear.
If uname -r doesn't have PAE in it, then simply follow the inestimable Hlinger's device and look at the document he mentions, which will be correct.