RHEL6.1 guest additions issues

[oneklema]

I am using VB 4.0.8 on Windows 7 64 host with Fedora 12 and RHEL6.1 (i386 and 86_64) as guest OS. I am having issues the guest additions on RHEL6.1.

The initial symptom was that I could not mount a shared folder. Upon comparison to my Fedora 12 install I noted that there was no link as follows on the RHEL6.1 (both i386 and 86_64) while there was on Fedora 12:
mount.vboxsf -> /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf

After I added the link the shared folder mounting work as expected.

I also noted that clipboard support will not work in either direction.

During the investigation I noted that the Guest Additions were partially failing while building the openGL support module. When examining the log file I get these two things that standout:
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)

tmp_vboxvideo_drm.o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:88: error: unknown field ‘get_map_ofs’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:88: error: ‘drm_core_get_map_ofs’ undeclared here (not in a funct
ion)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:89: error: unknown field ‘get_reg_ofs’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:89: error: ‘drm_core_get_reg_ofs’ undeclared here (not in a funct
ion)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [vboxvideo] Error 2

I am not sure how to Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src so I have not tried this.

[dmischa]

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 15#p187910

could help

[oneklema]

Thanks. It does seem similar. I assume when the poster says they reverted a change set, that is just going back to the previous version of VB (?)). Not really an option at this time for me, so I will just deal with the shortcomings and hope it gets fixed in next release.

[dmischa]

Thanks. It does seem similar. I assume when the poster says they reverted a change set, that is just going back to the previous version of VB (?)). Not really an option at this time for me, so I will just deal with the shortcomings and hope it gets fixed in next release.

you can also unpack the sources, revert the changeset, and finally install the guestadditions