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Hi there,

I am having a hard time in installing VBoxGuestAddition in Kali.

Error Details:
It gives an error "Building the main Guest Additions module ... failed!" The error logged by VBox log file is " (modprobe vboxguest failed) Starting VirtualBox Guest Addition service VirtualBox Additions module not loaded!"

Things already tried:
1- Upgraded and updated Kali, still no luck.
2- Uninstalling and re-installing
3- Copying the VBoxLinuxAddition file in /root, changing permission to 755 and running from there.
4- Restarting virtual machine

More Information:
The kernel module I have is 3.7 -trunk-686-pae and the VirtualBox version is 4.3.8.

Is this the unsupported kernel issue? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

The usual issue is missing packages to properly build the kernel modules.
Kali is Debian based so make sure the following packages are installed on the guest, then re-install the guest additions.

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dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

I am having the same issue and I cannot figure out the cause. I have the correct headers installed and everything is up to date. The contents of the log aren't very useful either:

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Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.8/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxguest-4.3.8

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.2.0-4-686-pae -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.8/build........................
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build completed.

vboxguest:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/updates/dkms/

vboxsf.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/updates/dkms/

vboxvideo.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

I am not sure what else to try at this point. Any and all help would be appreciated.

Edit: I am running Debian 7.4 "Wheezy".

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