Guest Additions Fails to Install on Red Hat 8.4 Guest

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dbaslm
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Guest Additions Fails to Install on Red Hat 8.4 Guest

Post by dbaslm »

This is some output from the vboxadd-setup.log file.

Building Guest Additions for kernel 4.18.0-305.el8.x86_64


Error Kernel configuration is invalid
include/geneerated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing

I would upload the full log but I can't get it out from the guest to the host at the moment as the guest additions won't build.
mpack
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Re: Guest Additions Fails to Install on Red Hat 8.4 Guest

Post by mpack »

I don't think we need a log. The error message seems self-explanatory.

In any case this is a problem with the guest OS, not the VM, so nothing relevant will appear in a VM log.
scottgus1
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Re: Guest Additions Fails to Install on Red Hat 8.4 Guest

Post by scottgus1 »

There are prerequisites to installing Virtualbox on a Linux host or the Guest Additions in a Linux guest: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq

The mention of :
dbaslm wrote:Error Kernel configuration is invalid
perhaps suggests the prerequisites are missing?
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