Having problems installing VBox guest additions on CentOS 8

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JCS9924
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Having problems installing VBox guest additions on CentOS 8

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I have just started using VirtualBox. I am trying to get 2 virtual screens working on a CentOS 8 (8.2_2004) guest, which AFAIK I need the Guest Additions.

Searching through documentation it appears that I need to install the kernel-devel and kernel-header packages for the release I am one (which I have done).

When I run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run I get the following error:
Kernel headers not found for target kernel 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64

rpm -q kernel-headers shows:
kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64

uname -r shows:
4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64

I am on an air-gapped network so I am installing the packages through RPM.

Are there any obvious gotchas I am missing here?

Thanks,
Martin
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Re: Having problems installing VBox guest additions on CentOS 8

Post by Martin »

Do you also have the kernel-devel package installed for this kernel?
fth0
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Re: Having problems installing VBox guest additions on CentOS 8

Post by fth0 »

I don't know the version numbering scheme, but is it ok to ignore the two differences "6.3." and "_2"?
JCS9924
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Re: Having problems installing VBox guest additions on CentOS 8

Post by JCS9924 »

fth0 wrote:I don't know the version numbering scheme, but is it ok to ignore the two differences "6.3." and "_2"?
Well that was a duh moment. ugh (not enough coffee today). Think my brain crapped out after installing perl without yum.
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