Building Virtualbox guest additions on RHEL7 fails

Latest response

Building the Oracle Virtualbox guest additions on the RHEL7 beta fail on the absence of the 'version.h' file [1]. This file would expected to be in the
kernel-headers package.

Anyone found a way to build/install the Virtualbox guest additions on the RHEL7 beta?

[1] /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64/include/linux/version.h

Steps to reproduce:
- yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers bzip2 make gcc -y
- run guest additions installer.
- check /var/log/vbox_addon.log

Rgrds, Martijn

ma
Log in to join the conversation

Responses

ar Newbie 15 points
6 January 2014 3:02 PM

See my post here: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=59094

Seems to work (cut and paste is fine), however it would have been nice to have the video full screen, etc. Need to do some testing on this...

David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
7 January 2014 9:41 AM

Thanks for the link, Alastair. Appreciate you helping out!

ma Newbie 5 points
13 February 2014 1:30 AM

Where is the script to be edited?
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.6/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/ ???

Also, just edit the script or something else need to be done?

I edited the three vboxadd-x11 on my system
[root localhost /]# find . -name vboxadd-x11

./etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxadd-x11
./opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.6/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vboxadd-x11
./opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.6/init/vboxadd-x11
without any luck!

Thanks

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
14 February 2014 1:06 AM

Basically, you want to extract the code from the .run file, apply patches (make necessary modifications), and then tar it up and install from that.

You can find an example procedure in this CentOS wiki article. Look for a line that starts with "Follow a procedure as below. The example is for x86_64".

[EDIT] The above "example procedure" has been removed from the wiki article because the patch is no longer required (May 2016).

ma Community Member 51 points
6 January 2014 4:37 PM

Worked for me! Thanks for the followup. I owe you beer ;-)

WS Newbie 5 points
10 May 2016 8:38 AM

I also had this same issue with RHEL 7.2 The error log showed the Kernel source was missing. And, the gcc compiler was MIA.

To fix my issue, I did the following 2 yum commands: yum install kernel-devel yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake after this, the guest additions loaded a-ok.

Cheers, Curly

RD Newbie 7 points
27 August 2016 5:16 AM

Thank you William! Your recommendation worked perfectly for me on 7.2

Cheers!

Robert

VD Newbie 5 points
17 May 2017 2:10 PM

Thank you very much William! Your recommendation worked perfectly for me on 7.3!

SR Newbie 9 points
12 December 2017 11:54 AM

This is still an issue in RHEL 7.4, the second yum command in Williams post fixed it for me.

Thanks!

Johnathan Smith's picture Community Member 95 points
7 June 2017 6:57 PM

I you still having a issue.. its working with 7.3

Close

Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.