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I'm Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 64bit LXDE, the first couple of Linux virtual machines I setup I had no problems with guest additions, but I had to throw them again because of other issues.

Fedora is working fine except for the guest additions part.

First of all I was able to mount it, but it wouldn't run LinuxAdditions.run, does Guest Additions support 64bit Linux or only 32 bit?

Then on another attempt it complained that it couldn't mount the image but asked if I wanted to Force *Un*Mount which didn't work the error indicates a locking problem (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED) but I don't know how I resolve this.

Any ideas?

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What error did you get when trying to run LinuxAdditions.run? – jordanm Nov 30 '12 at 15:11
Did you install the Oracle edition or the OSE? – schaiba Jun 6 at 13:44

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You will need to unmount the image from the OS using umount /dev/[imagename] or through your desktop GUI by right-clicking and ejecting the virtual CD. This is apparently a common issue; see this search.

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I have installed VirtualBox 4.2 on fedora 17 using the steps in the following link and i did not have any problem:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

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