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Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Q ; When i tried  to  add  Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions to my  fedora 12 i  got  this  errors .



 ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.1.4 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [FAILED]
(Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules.
Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)
Installing the Window System drivers
Installing experimental X.Org Server 1.7 modules           [  OK  ]
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]
[root@Unixmen-host VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.4_57640]# yum install kernel-devel
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package kernel-devel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

How to  reslove this error?

A: First you need to install  this packages for  Fedora  (kernel-PAE-devel  )

yum install kernel-PAE-devel.i686

Now try to install virtualbox additions again.

[root@Unixmen-host VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.4_57640]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.1.4 Guest Additions for Linux……..
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version of VirtualBox Guest Additions…
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ]
Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ]
Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions                    [  OK  ]
Installing the Window System drivers
Installing experimental X.Org Server 1.7 modules           [  OK  ]
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]
[root@Unixmen-host VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.4_57640]#

 

Enjoy

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12 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
  • Anonymous

    For ubuntu

    sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

  • Anonymous

    for Ubuntu,

    sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

  • Vikas

    This works great. Thank You

  • anorien

    Thanks for the help. This finally solved it out :)

  • CentOS Newb

    Works for CentOS i386 guest OS on Windows 7 x64 host. Guest OS would not install w/out PAE turned on in settings, so this makes some sense.

  • Clev II

    Thank you very much for posting this… It had been awhile since I added another VM, so things had been updated, etc. My system is clean as a whistle now :D

    • Zinovsky

      You`re welcome :)

  • http://enteryoursiteURL... hydra

    yum install kernel-PAE-devel
    ……
    No package kernel-PAE-devel available.
    Error: Nothing to do

    why?
    I’m CentOS 6.0

  • Shahzadashrafi

    that is just awesome.. thanx mate..

  • Dhana_2552

    hi this is mathi, Please help to install guest additions in centos 

    “Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [FAILED]“I checked log file in /var/log.vboxaddinstall.logit says  /tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:103: *** Error: KERN_DIR does not point to a directory.  Stop.what can i do??

  • Fabricio Sousa

    TKS MAN! ;)

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