Guest Addon Installation issues on RHEL 7.3

[DWF]

Hi,

My environment:
VBox 5.1.14 on Windows 7 (64-bit)
Guest OS: RHEL 7.3 (freshly installed from ISO)

I am trying to install the Guest Addition, but keeps getting the following error:

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[root@cd VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.14_112924]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.14 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.14 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Building Guest Additions kernel modules.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.

Looking at the /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log file, it says:

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[root@cd log]# cat VBoxGuestAdditions.log
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..

So, I did these on my VM:

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[root@cd log]# gcc
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
[root@cd log]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
[root@cd log]# yum list | grep kernel-headers
kernel-headers.x86_64             3.10.0-514.el7          @rhel-7-server-rpms  
kernel-headers.x86_64             3.10.0-514.6.1.el7      rhel-7-server-rpms   
[root@cd log]# uname -r
3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64

It looks like I have gcc, make and the header files. BTW, I also have perl installed. So, what am I missing?

Thanks,
David

[frank]

Could you also attach '/var/log/vboxadd-install.log'?

[DWF]

Frank,

It was already included in my original post. I'll post it here again:

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[root@cd log]# cat VBoxGuestAdditions.log
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..

David

[frank]

Hi Dave,

It was already included in my original post. I'll post it here again:

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[root@cd log]# cat VBoxGuestAdditions.log
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..

David

I don't see the actual file, only the message which mentions the presence of /var/log/vboxadd-install.log. Could you attach the content of that file?