Installation steps for Guest Additions module for Fedora
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Also, read http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-guest-addons.html

Preparation phase:
  - Download Virtual Box main engine according to your host operating system version
    and install it.
  - Download and install Virtual Box Extension Pack
  - Download the guest OS software
  - Start Virtual Box 
  - Create a virtual machine with appropriate virtual resources
  - install the guest OS on the newly created virtual machine
Guest additions installation:
  - Start Virtual Box and then the virtual machine, and login to the guest OS
  - Device icon
     => Install Guest Additions ...
      => browse to the Guest Additions iso file
          (located in C:\program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ folder) and select it
       let the guest additions run with some errors.
     This would mount the iso file to /media/VBox...  directory
     To enable copy/past to/from clipboard, 
     For a Linux VirtualboxVM client, to enable the shared clipboard,
       under Devices menu on the VM's toolbar, Devices => Shared Clipboard =>
       [Host To Guest | Guest To Host | Bidirectional] (choose bidirectional).
      
  - Start a terminal session and login as root "$ su -"
  - Execute the following commands on the terminal(for Fedora VM) as root
        # skip this step "yum -y update kernel"
	yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++  
	cd /media/VBoxGuestAdditions*
	./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
         Look for a red string "Failed" on the screen
          and note down the line above something like
	   "yum install kernel-devel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686"
	 and then run that command on the terminal
	   yum install kernel-devel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 (modify it as needed)
	Second time run the command
	 ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
	 This time the command should run with no error.
  This completes the Guest Addition installation.
  
Shared folder configuration with an example:
  - Create a folder on the host (C:\LocalData)
  - In Virtual Box, Device => Shared fodler ... =>
      click new share (  + sign at the upper right of the window)
        Path: C:\LocalData
	Share: datadir
	Enable ONLY the "Permanent" option
  - Start a terminal session and login to root "$ su -"
    Type the following commands carefully (only one time)
       mkdir /media/data
       cat >> /etc/fstab
       datadir /media/data vboxsf defaults 0 0
       ^d	   
       exit
  - Shutdown the virtual machine and then shutdown the host OS 
  - Start the host OS and then the guest OS
 Now you shall use the shared folder seamlessly
 (host: C:\LocalData and guest: /media/data)

--Prabakar
1/20/14