System details:
Host OS: windows 10
Guest OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I am using virtual box version 6.0.6 from last 2 years with guestadditions (GA). Suddenly one day guestaddition stopped working, it continuously pops the error "VBoxClient: Failed to get display change request, rc=VERR_GENERAL_FAILURE", I tried reinstalling GA, it did not worked, then I upgraded Virtual box to version 6.1.18, and tried installing GA, on running
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sudo bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
The /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log file content is:Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.18 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.1.18 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-210-generic
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 4.4.0-210-generic.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log to find out what
went wrong
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
What should I do? Please help.Installing X dot Org Server 1.18 modules
VBoxClient: info: Try 'VBoxClient --help' for more information