{"id":183,"date":"2015-02-08T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T12:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T12:25:04","slug":"install-virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora-21-xfce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/183\/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora-21-xfce\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Virtualbox guest additions on Fedora 21 XFCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Installing via the normal route didn’t work and meant I couldn’t easily resize the screen. Doing the below allowed me to use the resize easily.<\/p>\n

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  1. Install rpmfusion on fedora<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. run `sudo yum install\u00a0akmod-VirtualBox\u00a0VirtualBox-guest`<\/li>\n
  3. run `cd\u00a0\/usr\/src\/akmods`<\/li>\n
  4. run `sudo rpm -ivh VirtualBox-*.rpm`<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Once this was installed, rebooting will give you access to shared folders and fullscreen mode<\/p>\n

    Found the fix on the\u00a0fedora forums<\/a> for fedora 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Installing via the normal route didn’t work and meant I couldn’t easily resize the screen. Doing the below allowed me to use the resize easily. Install rpmfusion on fedora run `sudo yum install\u00a0akmod-VirtualBox\u00a0VirtualBox-guest` run `cd\u00a0\/usr\/src\/akmods` run `sudo rpm -ivh VirtualBox-*.rpm` Once this was installed, rebooting will give you access to shared folders and fullscreen mode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,81,80,13,39,83,82],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-fedora","tag-fedora-19","tag-fedora-21","tag-fix","tag-linux","tag-virtual-machine","tag-virtualbox"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2toWX-2X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":484,"url":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/484\/virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"Virtualbox Guest additions on Fedora","author":"Chewett","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This post describes how to install virtualbox guest additions on a Fedora virtual machine. 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