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I installed a fresh copy of Fedora 25 and did an update. I then installed kernel-devel, dkms, kernel-headers, and GCC. I rebooted the computer and installed Virtual Guest additions. The install had no errors but isn't working aftre the reboot. I have then added my user to the vboxesf group restarted and still the virtual guest additions isn't working. I am thinking that maybe the daemon or startup application might not be running but unsure what should be running or what I should be looking for.
I may be way off course here, but the only Virtual Guest Additions I know about are part of the VirtualBox package and are to be installed in the guest, not the host.
You mention installing Fedora and rebooting as if you are talking about a physical machine. Virtual additions have no purpose, and do nothing useful, on a physical machine. They only have any purpose in a virtual guest running under VirtualBox.
Yes Fedora is the guest OS in VirtuaBox but Guest additions isn't working. The Video isn't resizing etc. I believe I might be missing something running on boot like a daemon or application.
Or Fedora my be using something that conflicts and is a little too "cutting edge" to have made it into the VB mix. I seldom use Fedora these days (once used it a LOT, but CentOS and the Debian stable clones caught up to the things I needed long ago and are more stable) so I lack immediate experience with this situation.
Hey, all you Fedora guys, how about some comment here? Is this a known?
VBox isn't up to speed yet using 5.1.10. How I got it to go full screen. Go to /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service (and remove all vbox services. (Must be root) rm -f vboxadd-x11.service. Do this for all vbox services and then reboot.
Is there any update on this yet?
I'm having the exact same issue as the original poster: installed guest additions without errors, but they seem not to be functioning correctly.
It's not only the full screen that I want, also copy-pasting between host and guest, and access to my host files.
Thanks
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