{"id":204,"date":"2013-02-21T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T09:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2013-10-28T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:22:31","slug":"installing-guest-additions-on-oracle-enterprise-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/installing-guest-additions-on-oracle-enterprise-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Guest Additions on Oracle Enterprise Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"afa2b3b851443650502c43e85c746c1f\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4223201538046844\";\r\n\/* standaardblok *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9522527129\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 320;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 50;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>When installing Oracle Enterprise Linux in VirtualBox, or downloading one of the available images on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/database\/enterprise-edition\/databaseappdev-vm-161299.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Developer Days<\/a>, it \u00a0can be tricky installing the Guest Additions. I was struggling with those, until I found a<a href=\"http:\/\/oraclepoint.com\/oralife\/2012\/01\/26\/installing-vitualbox-guest-additions-on-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\"> very useful blogpos<\/a>t by\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"View all posts by R.Wang\" href=\"http:\/\/oraclepoint.com\/oralife\/author\/admin\/\">R.Wang<\/a>. This worked like a charm for me!<\/p>\n<p>Only thing you might want to check, is the kernel version you are using. In bullet 5 is referred to the KERNEL_DIR. In your specific case the version number might be different. go to \/usr\/src\/kernels and check for the latest kernel version in that directory. Also, there was no need for me to alter the yum.repos.d.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the steps for installing the Guest Additions <a href=\"http:\/\/oraclepoint.com\/oralife\/2012\/01\/26\/installing-vitualbox-guest-additions-on-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When installing Oracle Enterprise Linux in VirtualBox, or downloading one of the available images on Oracle Developer Days, it \u00a0can be tricky installing the Guest Additions. I was struggling with those, until I found a very useful blogpost by\u00a0\u00a0R.Wang. This worked like a charm for me! Only thing you might want to check, is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,208,112,210,6,207,209],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracle-blog","tag-enterprise-linux","tag-guest-additions","tag-install","tag-installing","tag-oracle","tag-virtualbox","tag-yum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}