Decompression failed when installing Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9.1 on VirtualBox 7.0.4

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skalinkin
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Decompression failed when installing Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9.1 on VirtualBox 7.0.4

Post by skalinkin »

I am getting error "Extraction failed." and "Decomprestion failed". when trying to install guest additions.
Virtual box 7.0.4
Rocky Linux 9.1

See screenshot in the attachment.
please help.
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scottgus1
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Re: Decompression failed when installing Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9.1 on VirtualBox 7.0.4

Post by scottgus1 »

Vagrant-influenced VMs are supported by Vagrant, not here. If you can demonstrate the error using Virtualbox only without any use of Vagrant we may be able to help.
CamaroDad
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Re: Decompression failed when installing Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9.1 on VirtualBox 7.0.4

Post by CamaroDad »

Try installing tar and bzip2.
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