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I am using Windows 8.1 and have installed Virtualbox 4.3.24 version. I have installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.6(64bit) version and I would like to enable the additional guest features.

I tried the following steps(in order):

• yum update
  yum install gcc
  yum install kernel-devel
  yum install kernel-uek-devel
  Reboot my Linux guest VM

Then I logged into the VM and

• wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 4.3.24.iso
  mount -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.24.iso /mnt
  cd /mnt
  sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

This fails with the following message:

• Building the main Guest Additional module: FAILED
  Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log

I looked there and I found the following msg
grep: /lib/modules/3.8.13-55.1.8.el6uek.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory

and some other stuff.

I could not find the specified file in the mentioned location. Am I missing something obvious. Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

The headers for the running kernel have to match.

Thanks for the reply. But could you please expand on that, what should I look for/update?

Thanks.

See this: https://ecmtech.wordpress.com/2012/05/1 ... x-6-guest/
hopefully it will help.

Thanks it was helpful. I was able to solve one of the issues mentioned by creating a link for the version.h file. Now I am getting couple of different errors

My log file looks like as in the image logs.png and my uname -r and rpm -qa | grep -i kernel looks like this(rpmqa_uname.png)

I could not copy-paste from the VM, hence the screenshots.

I have the following questions:
- I see kernel-uek-3.8.13-55.1.8.el6uek.x86_64 and kernel-uek-3.8.13-44.1.1.el6uek.x86_64, what is the difference?
- I also see the headers(kernel-headers-2.6*) , does this mean this header does not match the installed kernels?

What am I missing now? Do I have multiple kernel versions? If so, do I need to uninstall some?

Thanks.

I can only tell you what I do. I only have one kernel and matching headers in any of my Linux guests. Once I know the latest kernel works I delete any older ones.

I have to say your recent questions have more to do with Linux than Virtualbox and you could find the answers by doing searches.

Thanks for the replies. I will keep looking.

Finally it worked. Looks like I did not restart after the new kernel install. After restart it works fine now, Thanks for your help.