VirtualBox

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#16575 closed defect

Installing Guest Additions Fails — at Initial Version

Reported by: hgc Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 5.1.18
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

I have VBox 5.1.18 installed. I run up to 12 different distros of Linux virtually. The following list details the installation success/failure of guest additions.

  1. Apricity Birch - no issues
  1. Bohhi 4.1.0 - no issues
  1. CentOS 7 - failure vboxadd-install.log below

/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:97: * Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

  1. Debian 8.7.1 - failure vboxadd-install.log below

/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.16/src/vboxguest-5.1.16/build_in_tmp: 67: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.16/src/vboxguest-5.1.16/build_in_tmp: make: not found

  1. Elementary OS 0.4 - no issues
  1. Fedora 25 - failure vboxadd-install.log below

/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:97: * Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.

  1. Linux Lite 3.2 - no issues
  1. LXLE 16.04.01 - no issues
  1. Manjaro 16.10.03 - failure vboxadd-install.log below

/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:115: * Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

  1. Mint 18.0 - failure vboxadd-install.log below

* Unable to get log file

  1. PCLinuxOS2017.03 - no issues

All of the distros are up to date with latest updates.

It seems the if I can install the Guest Additions using the distro Add Software feature with in the distro itself the installation issue goes away.

Any help would be appreciated.

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