[ale] Fedora 24, VirtualBox, and Guest Additions

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Try the virtmanager. It's a very decent gui frontend for kvm. I've not
tried it with win8 (shudder) but I did have a solid win7 enterprise a few
years back at a prior job using it.

On Jul 20, 2016 8:23 AM, "Sergio Chaves" <sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 The VB site info seems to be outdated and Google gives answers that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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