Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#16575 closed defect
Installing Guest Additions Fails — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | hgc | Owned by: | |
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| 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.
- Apricity Birch - no issues
- Bohhi 4.1.0 - no issues
- 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.
- 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
- Elementary OS 0.4 - no issues
- 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.
- Linux Lite 3.2 - no issues
- LXLE 16.04.01 - no issues
- 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.
- Mint 18.0 - failure vboxadd-install.log below
* Unable to get log file
- 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.

