[Solved] Vboxadd Service Fails to Start

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EZNAECKK
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[Solved] Vboxadd Service Fails to Start

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I am running the
 Edit: latest version 
of Kali Linux (4.6.4-1) and cannot get the Virtualbox guest additions to run with the latest version of Virtualbox (5.2.16r123759) on Windows 8.1. Everything seems to install correctly, but when I try to start the guest additions, journalctl tells me:
vboxadd-service.service: VirtualBox Additions module not loaded!
vboxadd-service.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
vboxadd-service.service: Failed to start vboxadd-service.service.
I've tried a bunch of things including completely removing all guest additions, installing the old version in the package repositories, and reinstalling the version from the latest guest additions CD. I've also tried to get a more detailed failure reason, but the best I can do is that modprobe vboxguest (and the others) all give:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxguest': Exec format error
In addition, the modinfo on vboxguest is:
filename: /lib/modules/4.6.0-kali1-amd64/misc/vboxguest.ko
version: 5.2.16 r123759
license: GPL
description: Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux Module
author: Oracle Corporation
srcversion: 4A337699CB36D68B933FB9A
alias: pci:v000080EEd0000CAFEsv00000000sd00000000bc*sc*i*
depends:
vermagic: 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
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EZNAECKK
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Re: Vboxadd Service Fails to Start

Post by EZNAECKK »

Well, I figured it out. Turns out that Kali did not have linux-image-amd64 installed, but did have linux-headers-amd64. Thus, it looked like I was getting kernel updates, but wasn't really. I was stuck at 4.6.0 which much have broken with VirtualBox's latest release. Problem easily solved by installing the linux-headers-amd64 package.
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Re: [Solved] Vboxadd Service Fails to Start

Post by socratis »

Great, thanks for letting us know. And thank you for marking the topic as [Solved]... ;)
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Anil S
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Re: [Solved] Vboxadd Service Fails to Start

Post by Anil S »

Hi,
I'm also getting similar issue. Can you please tell how you installed Linux-headers-amd64 ?. I did tried yum install , but it did not install anything.

Regards,
Anil
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