Installing guest additions.

[Ramoorthy]

Hi All,
Trying to install Virtual box Guest additions OEL 6.3 on Windows 7 Host.
Am not getting it through. Getting the following error.

/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:97: *** Error: unable to find the source of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run make again. Stop.
Creating user for Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for Guest Additions kernel module.

I did not get this error when i installed the OS for the first time. Getting this only now after couple of deletions & additions.
Any help would be very helpful.
Also detailed steps on how to use the Host internet in the guest OS would be very helpful.
Thanks.
Ram

[Perryg]

Make sure that you have setup the public-yum repo in the OEL guest.
http://public-yum.oracle.com/

Then the following:
64-bit

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yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel

32-bit

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yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-pae-devel

[Ramoorthy]

Can you please help me to make guest OEL 6 update 3 use the internet from my windows 7 host?
I tried creating a adapter on the guest as a bridged adapter but still am not able to access the internet on my guest.
Please help.
Thanks.

[Ramoorthy]

I got past the issue by following commands.
#yum update
#yum install gcc
#yum install kernel-uek-devel

I was able to connect to the internet after connecting the laptop to the internet physically.
Thanks for people who attempted to help.
Ram