[Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7

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Still not fixed in 7.7 with Guest Additions ISO 6.0.11 revision 132973.
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7

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This kernel hit the CentOS CR repository a week ago. Expect more users complaining!
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7

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Chewi wrote:Expect more users complaining!
Like me! Just hit this problem. It's happened before; I think last time I was lucky and a few days later an updated Guest Additions was released with a fix.

Is there a page on this site somewhere which I can use to decide when to apply red hat kernel updates, or VirtualBox updates, such that I don't cause problems such as these? Or is the only option to leave it to chance, and just hope that no problems will be caused?
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7

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@frappe
You could subscribe to the developer's mailing list (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Mailing_lists). Usually that's where the patches are landing/being discussed. Developers love mailing lists. Not so much the forums... ;)
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7

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To save people wasting time, neither the general release 6.0.12 nor VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.13-133126.iso test build ISO fixed the RHEL 7.7 build problem. Logged error unchanged.
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Somebody filed a ticket about this, #18917. First post and thread title updated to reflect that...
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Re: Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Closing as [Fixed], based on the ticket status.
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Thanks,
I can verify that RHEL 7.7 VM works with VB 6.0.12-133076 and GA 6.0.13-133264
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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I confirm, too.

To get the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, I downloaded VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.13_133347_el7-1.x86_64.rpm and extracted it thru 7-Zip (or use rpm2cpio + cpio).

Thanks!
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Or you could have simply downloaded the Guest Additions ISO as a standalone download (VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.13-133316.iso) and save you both the bandwidth and the extraction... ;)
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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I found it quite hard to google out specific GA build.
VBox Guest Additions 6.1.0 BETA1 worked fine in my case (with VirtualBox 6.0.12).
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Specific test builds aside, usings GAs which are newer than the host software is a big no-no. All kinds of weird behaviour can result.
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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socratis says to use VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.13-133316.iso, but I cannot find 6.0.13 anywhere on the virtualbox downloads pages. 6.0.12 is the latest non-Beta version I find.
Looked here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/.

Like Hrobky, I installed VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.0_BETA1, and this has resolved my problems.

To answer mpack on using different versions of GA vs VBox, I am more or less forced to do this, and have for years without major issues. My company locks down my PC/Vbox version, which is 6.0.8. Every time Oracle releases a new version of CentOS it breaks my Guest additions, and I'm forced to install the latest version, which usually works once they have a release that fixes the display issues - Its almost always failure to support full screen.

Update: I did find 6.0.13 eventually in the test builds section https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds. Here is a link to the file [ModEdit: removed link].
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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hossdave wrote:Here is a link to the file ...
Please don't post links to the test builds. They have a lifespan that can range from minutes, up to a maximum of three weeks. It's best if the link goes to the test builds page, to get the latest and the greatest...
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Re: [Fixed] Guest Additions 6.0.10 will not compile in RHEL 7.7 (#18917)

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Thanks for the tip about trying the test builds. I just updated my CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 VMs last night and *both* of them stopped displaying full-screen because the Guest Additions for "6.0.4" were not working for VirtualBox 6.0.4. No updates to VirtualBox were available so I decided to try a "6.0.15" test build... and that indeed solved the problem for me.

I've been using VirtualBox for years and this is the first time I can recall having to use a higher release number for Guest Additions in order for them to work. Usually the VirtualBox and Guest Additions version numbers match each other on my machines.
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