Problem installing guest additions on peppermint ice

[MarioMaster100]

I can't install guest additions properly to a peppermint ice guest I've already asked on the peppermint forum
http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 6930#p6930

[stefan.becker]

Read the Howto in the Linux Guest Area. If this does not work, then use a Linux Distro that is known as supported (Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse).

You cant expect every exotic distro will be supported.

[mfox]

I believe that your problem is due to missing elements in Peppermint needed by VB to install the guest additions. Typically, these are the linux headers for the installed kernel, the make program and GCC. I don't believe that all of these are included when you install Peppermint because it's meant to be a minimal distro. Fortunately, it is Ubuntu-based, and the repositories should have these programs, making them easy to install. Start up your Synaptic Package Manager, use the search function to find these programs, and install them. Then run the guest additions package.

[pk]

Similar problems here with a Debian Testing. I never had problems with the guest additions in the past, problems began with one of the latest virtualbox versions (however, I'm not sure if the problem is caused by VirtualBox, it might also be because of some changes in Debian).

I got it to work after lots of trouble (I had to download the entire kernel sources, not just the headers), but now that I've upgraded to 3.2.8, I'm running in the same problems again, and I must admit that I've forgotten how exactly I solved that problem the last time

Anyway, I'd like to find an easier way for building the additions, without having to download the entire kernel sources. I'm not sure what's going wrong here - the Guest Additions installer simply complains it doesn't find the kernel sources.

[stefan.becker]

I think this a problem of Debian Testing, not from VBOX. With a clean kernel configuration there is no problem. I think you have different versions from running kernel and headers/source.


But without exact infos thee is nothing else to say.

[pk]

The kernel modules seem to build now, I set a symlink from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64
(I tried to symlink to the complete source tree at first, but the headers seem to suffice).

Loading of the modules, however, fails.

"modprobe vboxguest" states "Invalid module format", dmesg says "vboxguest: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout".

uname -r prints "2.6.32-trunk-amd64"

Still looks like some version mismatch, but I have no idea how to solve it.

[stefan.becker]

There is an easy solution: Dont use testing.

[pk]

There is an easy solution: Dont use testing.

That's not the kind of solution I was looking for

Anyway, it works again: I switched back to an older kernel version, which made the guest additions build and install fine.