Fedora 18 Tutorial-Install Virtualbox Guest Additions

fedora-tutorial-guest-additionsIn this tutorial we will show you how to install Virtualbox Guest Additions on Fedora 18. I was installing Fedora 18 Alpha on my Virtualbox 4.1.22. After the installation finished,, the next important thing is to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions on Fedora 18 to get better performance, and higher resolution.

Tutorial Objective:

This guide will try to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 18 guest machine installed on Virtualbox. Then also, we fix some errors on the installation steps.

Step to install Guest additions on Fedora 18

When I try to install guest additions on Fedora 18, I got the an error message telling that missing package.

missing kernel-devel-3.6.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc18.i686

We can solve this problem by installing some packages below. Do this as root on Terminal

yum install gcc

yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`

The command above will install gcc, correct kernel-devel match with your current kernel version. Wait until the installation process and now start to install Guest Additions

cd /run/media/dhani/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.22_80657

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

And viola, the installation is now successful. Reboot the virtual machine and now Guest Addition should be works fine. Enjoy