VB can’t install Guest Additions

[Yean]

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service.
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.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-x11.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service.

[Perryg]

Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.

Did you do what was suggested above? Care to share it with us?

[Pop717]

Pls. suggest .

[Perryg]

I am afraid there is nothing to suggest. We need data to diagnose what might be going wrong and a complete description of the issue.

[Pop717]

I got ther same problem.
i'd already installed linux headers and got VBoxLinuxAdditions.run , cp to desktop and install(./)
during installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAddition.log for details.

the detail message inside is same as Yean's post above.
i'm newbie pls. suggest. i can't post www bynow.

[Perryg]

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/var/log/VBoxGuestAddition.log for details.

Same suggestion then. Look at the above log and if you can't figure it out then post it here ( as an attachment )
It might also help if you post the guest log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[mingle]

I had the same issue when trying to install the latest Kernel (4.12.0) on my Linux Mint 18.2 Guest install.

The vboxadd.sh would fail to build or start...

After a bit of judicious Googling I discovered that there's an issue/bug with the Guest Additional and the latest Kernel.

I downloaded a test build .iso of the latest Guest Additions (5.1.23) and used this to re-install them on my Linux Mint guest
and it worked fine. Obviously this is a pre-release/test version of the .iso, so the usual disclaimers apply

Here's the direct link to the .iso file:

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... ox-extpack

Cheers,

Mike.

[frankfar]

I have the same issue when trying to install Guest Additions on a Debian Stretch 9.1.0 guest.
I was able to install Virtual Box v5.1.26 on my Windows 7 64-bit host and Debian Stretch as a
guest without any issues. When I attempt to install Guest Additions, the installation fails. The
log files show the following information.

VBoxGuestAddtions.log:
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-x11.service →
/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd.service →
/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service.
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.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-service.service →
/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.

vboxadd-install.log:
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.26/src/vboxguest-5.1.26/build_in_tmp: 67:
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.26/src/vboxguest-5.1.26/build_in_tmp: make: not found
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

I installed the GCC and linux-headers-amd64 packages needed to support the build process.
The log file seems to indicate that I am missing a make package. I am relatively new at this.
Can someone confirm that this is the actual problem and, if it is, which package to I need and
where do I get it??

Thanks for your help.

[frankfar]

As mentioned in my previous post, I ran into problems with installing Guest Additions on a
Debian Stretch 9.1.0 guest. After doing some research, I found that I needed to install the
build-essential and module-assistant packages and then run m-a prepare before running the
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script that installs Guest Additions. After doing this, I was able to
install and run Guest Additions without any further problems.