[ale] Fedora 24, VirtualBox, and Guest Additions

[Sergio Chaves]

I did not try KVM. I tried the Boxes app but it does not recognize the
Win8.1 DVD as bootable media.

On Jul 20, 2016 8:17 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah! That makes more sense. Saw VB and microsoft and recalled the wrong
> data.
>
> I don't use virtual box as kvm and virtmanager are quite capable tools
> that ship with fedora.
>
> On Jul 19, 2016 11:55 PM, "David Ritchie" <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> VirtualBox would be my guess.
>>
>> -- David
>>
>> On Jul 19, 2016 21:25, "Jim Kinney" <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:
>>
>>> VB??? Visual Basic?
>>>
>>> On July 19, 2016 8:25:01 PM EDT, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> After all the security issues with Linux Mint, I decided to try Fedora
>>>> again and I like it a lot - other versions did not like my video card and I
>>>> did not feel like compiling drivers for every kernel change.
>>>> My problem is that I installed VB 64 bit, installed Winders 8.1 64 bit
>>>> and everything works fine except for Guest Additions. It says it installed
>>>> correctly but the functions it is supposed to enable are all greyed out.
>>>> For instance,  Seamless mode is disabled amongst many other things.
>>>> The VB site info seems to be outdated and Google gives answers that are
>>>> all over the place.
>>>> Does anybody have any clues on what may be happening?
>>>>
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