Upgrading a VM Fedora 17 to Fedora18 on VirtualBox

Not that easy, but fully happy after doing it!

After doing some Google search and after following the steps written by some people, my walkthrough to achieve this task is as follows:

Happiness when I obtained the Login panel again after all the process

1- In the Virtual Machine, as root user :

yum update
yum clean all
reboot

yum install fedup
fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog feduplog.log

In the guide said that it was better to put a permissive mode in SELinux but I don’t know if it is necessary. To do this:

setenforce 0
getenforce

2- After the reboot, select the System Update in the Grub menu.

3- A new reboot happened and in my case I obtained only a panel with the Fedora logo and the login panel didn’t appear at once. :( There is a solution !! :)

Reboot again the VM. In the new Fedora 18 entry on Grub click e to edit the boot options. Add the number 3 al the end of the linux line.F10 to continue. If everything goes well, you would login as root. Try lo launch X11 with startx command. Maybe you will obtain the following error at the end:

Failed to load module vboxvideo

To solve this problem, run this command:

/etc/init.d/vboxadd-x11 setup

Et Voilà!!!

After reboot, the login panel should appear again.

Hope this work for you.

RaC