DEBIAN 8 - vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.

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cephasiii
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DEBIAN 8 - vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.

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When trying to install Guest Additions on my Debian 8 Jessie Guest I receive the following error:
cephasiii@3butz:/media/cdrom$ ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.20 Guest Additions for Linux...........
This program must be run with administrator privileges. Aborting
cephasiii@3butz:/media/cdrom$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.20 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.20 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.
When I look at the log it states:
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
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Re: DEBIAN 8 - vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.

Post by socratis »

cephasiii wrote:please check the log file /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log
cephasiii wrote:Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log
Did you look at the 2nd mentioned log? What does it say?
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