[WorksForMe] Debian 9 unable to install Guest Additions

[dodoslavn]

Hello everyone

I have Debian 9 installed in VM, and to connect i use rdesktop, but because i have the issue where i have 2 mouses basicly, iam trying to install this Additions.
I followed manual from this forum but i wasnt successful, this is the status:

Running the installation:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.8 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.8 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.

Checking the first log:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log
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: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..
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.

Checking the second log:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# cat /var/log/vboxadd-install.log
grep: /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 -j2 modules
make[1]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64 KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common \
-f /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/Makefile modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (                \
echo >&2;                                                       \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";           \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";      \
echo >&2 ;                                                      \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0

XXX

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/scripts/Makefile.build:298: recipe for target '/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount  "/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o"; fi; fi;
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/Makefile:1517: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/vbox.0' failed
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
Makefile:152: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.footer:84: recipe for target 'vboxguest' failed
make: *** [vboxguest] Error 2
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

Info about repositories and up-to-date status

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# apt update
Hit:1  download.virtualbox. org/virtualbox/debian stretch InRelease                                          
Ign:2  ftp.antik. sk/debian stretch InRelease                                                                
Hit:3  ftp.antik. sk/debian stretch-updates InRelease                                                     
Hit:4  ftp.antik. sk/debian stretch Release                                                               
Hit:5  security.debian. org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease               
Reading package lists... Done                                                            
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

All mentioned packages are installed:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# apt install dkms build-essential  linux-headers-$(uname -r) gcc make 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.3).
dkms is already the newest version (2.3-2).
gcc is already the newest version (4:6.3.0-4).
make is already the newest version (4.1-9.1).
linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64 is already the newest version (4.9.88-1+deb9u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Some packages mentioned in different manual for this installation:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# apt install build-essential module-assistant
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.3).
module-assistant is already the newest version (0.11.9).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# m-a prepare 
Getting source for kernel version: 4.9.0-6-amd64
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/build
apt-get install build-essential 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Done!

Version info:

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root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# uname -a
Linux DebTest 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1 (2018-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks for help in advance

[socratis]

You didn't have to post anything at all, you simply had to read the error messages:

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vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..

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grep: /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory

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linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64 is already the newest version (4.9.88-1+deb9u1).

You don't need a "newer" version of the headers. You need the *exact* headers. This is not a case where newer == better.

You didn't mention your host. I need to know the VirtualBox version as well, so open up a Terminal and post the output of "VBoxManage -version".

[dodoslavn]

This is the host, it should be basicly the same version of OS

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[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ vboxmanage -version
5.2.8r121009
[dodoslav@AS2:~]
$ uname -a
Linux AS2 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for dodoslav: 
Hit:1 repo.mysql. com/apt/debian stretch InRelease                                                      
Ign:2 ftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch InRelease                                                       
Hit:3 ftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                               
Hit:4 hftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch Release                   
Get:5 security.debian. org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
Fetched 94.3 kB in 10s (9,077 B/s)                                      
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

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[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep virtual
#virtualbox
#deb  download.virtualbox. org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib

Well, i was always thinking, i need headers with version which i am running at the moment as a kernel

Thanks for help

Note, i had to remove the protocol name from the repo address

[andyp73]

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[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ uname -a
Linux AS2 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64 is already the newest version (4.9.88-1+deb9u1).

For some reason, the kernel you are running (4.9.82-1) is behind the version of headers (4.9.88-1) you have installed. I would suggest running the following as root:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade
# reboot

-Andy.

[dodoslavn]

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[root@AS2:~]# apt update
Ign:1://ftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch InRelease                                                       
Hit:2 ://repo.mysql. com/apt/debian stretch InRelease                                                      
Hit:3 ://ftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                                 
Hit:4 ://ftp.cz.debian. org/debian stretch Release                                         
Hit:5 ://security.debian. org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease              
Reading package lists... Done                                                           
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
[root@AS2:~]# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpulsedsp libwebrtc-audio-processing1 linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64 pulseaudio-utils rtkit
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[root@AS2:~]# apt dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpulsedsp libwebrtc-audio-processing1 linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64 pulseaudio-utils rtkit
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

#turned off all VMs

[root@AS2:~]# reboot

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[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ uptime -p
up 3 minutes
[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ uptime 
 14:45:49 up 3 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.35, 1.64, 0.74
[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ uname -a
Linux AS2 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

after this, i logged into the VM and tried to run the installation, but same error

[socratis]

At the end of the day, in order for this whole thing to work, your working kernel has to have an available, *matching* set of headers. There's no way around it. Either you downgrade your kernel, or you have to find the *matching* headers...

[dodoslavn]

Iam not sure if understood this.

Right now i have same kernel version on VM and host, with installed same version of linux-headers.

How does the headers from the host or its OS affect the VM?

Thank you

[socratis]

How does the headers from the host or its OS affect the VM?

It doesn't get affected by the host, it affects the kernel modules that have to be built for your VM. No matching kernel headers => can't build the VirtualBox kernel modules => can't run VirtualBox GAs...

And again, "uname -a", and then point me to the directory with the matching kernels. I want to see that directory, not apt-get output...

[dodoslavn]

iam not sure which directories exactly, and what there:

Host:

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[root@AS2:/usr/src]# uname -a
Linux AS2 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

VM:

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root@DebTest:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-4-common# uname -a
Linux DebTest 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[root@AS2:/usr/src]# ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  9 09:23 linux-headers-4.9.0-5-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan  9 09:23 linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  9 13:50 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  9 13:50 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   23 Jan  4 12:12 linux-kbuild-4.9 -> ../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 Apr 13 22:45 vboxhost-5.2.10 -> ../share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost

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root@DebTest:/usr/src# ll
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   36 May  2 17:48 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  2 15:30 linux-headers-4.9.0-4-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  2 15:30 linux-headers-4.9.0-4-common
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  9 14:26 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May  9 14:49 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   23 Apr 29 09:19 linux-kbuild-4.9 -> ../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   49 May  9 17:56 vboxguest-5.1.8 -> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.8/src/vboxguest-5.1.8

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[root@AS2:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64]# ll
total 1264
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Mar  8 09:56 arch
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 Mar  8 09:56 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     304 May  8 00:38 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280773 May  8 00:38 Module.symvers
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      34 Mar  2 08:52 scripts -> ../../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9/scripts
[root@AS2:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64]# find . | wc -l
7391

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[root@AS2:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common]# ll
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root  4096 Mar  8 09:56 arch
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root  4096 May  9 13:50 include
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 59882 May  8 00:38 Makefile
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    34 Mar  2 08:52 scripts -> ../../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9/scripts
[root@AS2:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common]# find . | wc -l
8386

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root@DebTest:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64# ll
total 1264
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 May  2 15:34 arch
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 May  2 15:34 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     304 May  8 00:38 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280773 May  8 00:38 Module.symvers
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      34 Apr 29 09:19 scripts -> ../../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9/scripts
root@DebTest:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64# find . | wc -l
7391

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root@DebTest:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common# ll
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root  4096 May  2 15:34 arch
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root  4096 May  9 14:26 include
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 59882 May  8 00:38 Makefile
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    34 Apr 29 09:19 scripts -> ../../lib/linux-kbuild-4.9/scripts
root@DebTest:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common# find . | wc -l
8386

not sure if this was helpful somehow, if not, can you please specify what exactly?

Thanks!

[socratis]

Can you give me the exact path to / link to the ISO that you used for your VM? Right now I have a couple of Debian ISOs, "debian-9.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" and "debian-9.0.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso". What did you use for your VM? How can I get it?

I want to create a new VM and try to replicate what you've done.

[dodoslavn]

Used ISO should be: debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
downloaded from link: tps://cdimage.debian. org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso

they replaced 9.3 with 9.4 however, i dont think there will be difference
i can reinstall and test it myself also on this newer version so we are on same page

it was clean installation with MATE, i wanted to test some stuff with docker, but first i wanted to fix the mouse

[socratis]

I prefer to have my complete ISOs, instead of the net-install ones. I can install and install and install, without needing multi-GB downloaded data on the fly. Plus I can install even without a network! So, if you're going to download something, let's download the same thing from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... 4/iso-dvd/

I'm downloading https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... -DVD-1.iso. It's going to take me a couple of hours, so, later...

[dodoslavn]

so, i found the issue

you asked me what version of virtualbox do i use, i printed:

[dodoslav@AS2:~]$ vboxmanage -version
5.2.8r121009

and at begin when i was showing you the issue, you can see version of Guest Additions

root@DebTest:/media/cdrom# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.8 Guest Additions for Linux...........

so no need of explaining anything more. Now i downloaded the right one and it worked like a charm
so, it wasnt just

you simply had to read the error messages

but more about what version do i work with, however, i would like to test later the different linux-headers on host and VM, if it really affect each other

thanks for you time and energy

[socratis]

at begin when i was showing you the issue, you can see version of Guest Additions

It got lost in the sea of information
That should only happen if you downloaded the GAs separately, and you didn't install them following standard procedures (why don't people do it the easy way?), by using the menu Devices » Insert GAs CD Image, as every VirtualBox installation comes with the appropriate GAs bundled! No separate download is needed...

Glad you got it going. Marking as [WorksForMe].

[dodoslavn]

well, i know this "Insert GA" when iam running virtualbox in GUI and when i start the VM with window. Most probably yes, i would do it.

But iam using CLI and headless VMs, not sure how to do it here.

Actualy, if i had VM with GUI, it was always WinXP 32bit SP3, and this issue wasnt there, i could use this "older" version of GA and it worked.