Fedora 23 + Virtualbox 5.0.8 = No XORG drivers

[georgelappies]

Hi all

Thanks for the release of Fedora 23. I am sure that it will be a great release.

I need to use it in a Virtualbox VM but the Virtualbox VM xorg drivers fail to build and load. It tells me that it is an unsupported version of xorg.

Is there a way to fix this and Fedora full screen at 1920 x 1080? (without running it on the bare metal which unfortunately is not an option).

[vallimar]

No, Fedora chose to ship a pre-release Xorg version that isn't officially supported by anybody. So no native Virtualbox driver. Either get by using the vesa one or downgrade Xorg to the 1.17 version from F22.

[mpajoh]

No, Fedora chose to ship a pre-release Xorg version that isn't officially supported by anybody. So no native Virtualbox driver. Either get by using the vesa one or downgrade Xorg to the 1.17 version from F22.

PI have the same problem.
How would I make dnf to downgrade the package and use the latest F22 version?

Masoud

[lsatenstein]

PI have the same problem.
How would I make dnf to downgrade the package and use the latest F22 version?

Masoud

man dnf explains how

[baumanamt6]

1. dnf --showduplicates --allowerasing --releasever=22 downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg
2. reinstall Guest Additions

Resolved here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=306857

Worked for me

[georgelappies]

1. dnf --showduplicates --allowerasing --releasever=22 downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg
2. reinstall Guest Additions

Resolved here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=306857

Worked for me

Thank you baumanamt6, now your reply is an example of an actually useful and much appreciated answer.

[RupertPupkin]

At work I'm running F23 as a guest OS in VirtualBox 5.0.8 on Windows 7, and I was able to get the Guest Additions (which include the enhanced Xorg drivers for resolutions higher than 1024x768) from the latest RPM Fusion repos for F23:

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

The above page has links to the RPMs for access to the free and non-free repos for F23. After you install the rpmfusion-free-release-23.noarch.rpm RPM you can then use dnf to install the VirtualBox-guest package. It's worked great for me.

[Dutchy]

At work I'm running F23 as a guest OS in VirtualBox 5.0.8 on Windows 7, and I was able to get the Guest Additions (which include the enhanced Xorg drivers for resolutions higher than 1024x768) from the latest RPM Fusion repos for F23:

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

The above page has links to the RPMs for access to the free and non-free repos for F23. After you install the rpmfusion-free-release-23.noarch.rpm RPM you can then use dnf to install the VirtualBox-guest package. It's worked great for me.

At the moment this seems to only allow for more resolutions?
The other stuff (e.g. resize, copy/past, drag&drop files) does not work.

[RupertPupkin]

I haven't tried drag&drop, but resizing and copy/paste work for me.

[artu72]

At work I'm running F23 as a guest OS in VirtualBox 5.0.8 on Windows 7, and I was able to get the Guest Additions (which include the enhanced Xorg drivers for resolutions higher than 1024x768) from the latest RPM Fusion repos for F23:

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

The above page has links to the RPMs for access to the free and non-free repos for F23. After you install the rpmfusion-free-release-23.noarch.rpm RPM you can then use dnf to install the VirtualBox-guest package. It's worked great for me.

I just tryed it with no success (update F23 box in Windows). xorg video module segfaults. Perhaps should I recompile drivers? If yes, how?

UPDATE : I just tried to use VirtualBox instead of VMLite and it works now.