Comments on: Fixing the Fedora 12 VirtualBox Guest Additions problem

By: misha

misha — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:36:49 +0000

nice post, many thanks

By: Sslaxx

Sslaxx — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:41:02 +0000

Would this be the same kind of issue afflicting Lucid?

By: Jits

Jits — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:51:21 +0000

Hi,

Glad it worked for you!

Seems there may be a better solution.

I haven’t tried this yet but will do in a bit.

I don’t suppose you’ve been having regular problems with freezes with your VMs?

Cheers,
Jits

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:59:52 +0000

I had the same problem with Fedora 12 and using the Vbox 3.1.2 r56127. This fix resolved the issue for now.

There is a much easier way to install the fix, however. When the screen hangs, hit CTRL-ALT-F2, and you’ll get a terminal screen. Sign in as root, make the suggested file change, and save it. Now do “shutdown -r now” to reboot the system. If you didn’t make any keystroke errors on the file, you should now see a GUI screen.

Hint: When keying in the config file, figure out what resolutions you most likely will need, and include them on the “Modes” line.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:10:59 +0000

Installed the latest version VirtualBox this morning (3.1.2 r56127) with Fedore 12 and it works perfectly! Just had to follow the instructions (mainly to install dkms and gcc and dependencies) and all features from guest add-ons (including window resizing) works.

André

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:27:02 +0000

Apropos of Matt’s comment, just add “single” to grub’s list of arguments to the kernel. You’ll get to a single-user shell and will be able to edit the xorg.conf file with complete alacrity.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:51:49 +0000

Instead of having to use the Fedora rescue mode, you can boot into run level 3, or even 1, by changing the grub options. (Grub is the boot loader).

Fedora’s grub usually never shows, but you can get to it by pressing the up or down arrow keys (not the right nor left ones) when the VirtualBox boot splash appears. You make have to let virtualbox grab your mouse by clicking the window. You’ll know you have it when you see a blue menu with Fedora entries.

Anyhow, the first entry is usually the right one (Fedora …). Highlight it and press ‘e’ to edit. In the new menu highlight the middle one (kernel …) and press ‘e’. Add “3″ to the end of the line, with a space before it and no quotes. Press Enter. Then press ‘b’ to boot.

Once you have logged in, you can proceed with the changes outlined in the article.

There are many other options and commands for the grub menu, some of which are listed at the bottom of the it. Remember that whatever options you add or remove here are *temporary*. For permanent changes change grub.conf. Don’t know how? [Your favorite search engine here] is your friend.

You can also use nano or jed if you aren’t familar with vi. Under run level 3 you should have networking (wireless maybe not). Just use ‘yum install nano’.

Some other resolutions (depends on your desktop): 1020×600 1280×800

To the author: Thanks! I “lost” two to this. Any chance you can have a link so we can use wget or something else to download the file, rather than having to type it all out?