id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 11815,Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions [FAILED] in Fedora 18,Biswajit,,"Hi, I've installed Fedora 18 32bit guest into a Oracle VM Virtualbox running on a windows 7 host. Previously I've installed Fedora 16 as the host machine and everything was working fine. Now after installing Fedora 18 i tried to install virtual-guest addition but there is some issue. I guess its BUG. I had followers all the procedures correctly to install the VirtualBoxGuestAdditions I am attaching the logs. root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.10 Guest Additions for Linux.......... VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 4.2.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ] Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules [ OK ] Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [ OK ] Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions [ OK ] '''Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions [FAILED] (modprobe vboxguest failed)''' Installing the Window System drivers Installing X.Org Server 1.13 modules [ OK ] Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions [ OK ] You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions. Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[ OK ] ---------------------------------- [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log '''Starting vboxadd (via systemctl): Job for vboxadd.service failed. See 'systemctl status vboxadd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. [FAILED] Starting vboxadd-service (via systemctl): Job for vboxadd-service.service failed. See 'systemctl status vboxadd-service.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. [FAILED] Starting vboxadd-x11 (via systemctl): [ OK ] [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]#''' ----------------------------------------- [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]#systemctl status vboxadd.service vboxadd.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxadd) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2013-05-20 03:37:22 EDT; 4min 54s ago ''' May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions [FAILED] May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: (modprobe vboxguest failed)''' '''May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: vboxadd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules. May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit vboxadd.service entered failed state'''. [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# ------------------------------------------------------- [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log Uninstalling modules from DKMS Attempting to install using DKMS Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.2.10/source -> /usr/src/vboxguest-4.2.10 DKMS: add completed. Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping... Building module: cleaning build area.... make KERNELRELEASE=3.9.2-200.fc18.i686.PAE -C /lib/modules/3.9.2-200.fc18.i686.PAE/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.2.10/build............... cleaning build area.... DKMS: build completed. vboxguest: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/3.9.2-200.fc18.i686.PAE/extra/ vboxsf.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/3.9.2-200.fc18.i686.PAE/extra/ vboxvideo.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/3.9.2-200.fc18.i686.PAE/extra/ depmod.... DKMS: install completed. Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module. [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# Best Regards, Biswajit Sadhu",defect,closed,guest additions,VirtualBox 4.2.12,fixed,,,other,other