Trying to install Guest Additions in Fedora 24

[Patricio]

Hi, I'm trying to install Guest Additions, the guest SO is Fedora 24 and the host SO is Windows 7.

I'm doing this to fix the screen resolution in Fedora because the maximum I can get is 1024x768, while in Windows I have 1366x768.

The problem is that when I try to install Guest Additions I get this:

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Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.26 Guest Additions for Linux............
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.0.26 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules[  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules[  OK  ]
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules[  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules[  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module[FALLÓ]
(Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions[  OK  ]
Press Return to close this window...

So everything is fine except Building the main Guest Additions module

This is in /var/log/vboxadd-install.log:

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Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/5.0.26/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxguest-5.0.26

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make -j2 KERNELRELEASE=4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 -C /lib/modules/4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/5.0.26/build......(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/5.0.26/build/make.log for more information.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
grep: /lib/modules/4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (                \
echo >&2;                                                       \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";           \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";      \
echo >&2 ;                                                      \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.VBoxGuest-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/6.1.1/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated  -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SSSE3=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CRC32=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -O2 --param=allow-store-data-races=0 -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector-strong -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-const-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fvar-tracking-assignments -g -pg -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -Werror=implicit-int -Werror=strict-prototypes -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -Wno-declaration-after-statement -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/VBoxGuestMangli

So I guess that it can't find include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf files, what can I do?

I've already done:

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

What else can I do?

[Perryg]

I would verify that the running kernel matches the kernel-devel and kernel-headers.

[Patricio]

I would verify that the running kernel matches the kernel-devel and kernel-headers.

It's ok according to me.

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[patricio@localhost lab3-tsc]$ uname -r
4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64
[patricio@localhost lab3-tsc]$ 

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[root@localhost lab3-tsc]# yum install kernel-devel
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf install kernel-devel'.
See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
'dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate && dnf-2 migrate'

Última comprobación de caducidad de metadatos hecha hace 2:54:20, el Sun Nov  6 12:51:40 2016.
El paquete kernel-devel-4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 ya se encuentra instalado, omitiendo.
Dependencias resueltas.
Nada por hacer.
¡Listo!
[root@localhost lab3-tsc]

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[root@localhost lab3-tsc]# yum install kernel-headers
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf install kernel-headers'.
See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
'dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate && dnf-2 migrate'

Última comprobación de caducidad de metadatos hecha hace 2:54:50, el Sun Nov  6 12:51:40 2016.
El paquete kernel-headers-4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 ya se encuentra instalado, omitiendo.
Dependencias resueltas.
Nada por hacer.
¡Listo!
[root@localhost lab3-tsc]

In english those commands say that kernel-headers-4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 and kernel-devel-4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64 are already installed, and the versions from both commands match what I get with uname -r

I'm new to Linux and Fedora, so I don't know what to do.

Any kind of help is welcome.

[Perryg]

Will they build on the previous kernel?

[Patricio]

Will they build on the previous kernel?

I don't know, how can I check that?

[Perryg]

During the boot process you should see a list of installed kernels. Since the 4.8.* kernels was not the default for Fedora 24 there should be a choice of something in the 4.7.* range unless this is a new install. Look at boot and tell me if there are any previous kernels and what the version numbers are.

[Patricio]

It's version 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64

[Perryg]

Very well. Now has the guest had the additions installed with that kernel? What happens if you boot to that kernel and install the additions? Note: you may need to install the headers and devel package to match. Easiest way is to use the $(uname -r) wildcard while you are booted in that kernel
Example:
dnf install kernel-headers-$(uname -r) kernel-devel-$(uname -r)

[Patricio]

Nice, now I could install GA without errors and the resolution in Fedora match the Host, Thanks!!!

[Perryg]

That's good. If you want to go to the newer kernel I would first install dkms and then boot to the new kernel. After that run "rcvboxadd setup" in an elevated terminal.

[alopezv]

Hello!
I'm having the same problem on F25:

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[armando@localhost VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.8_111374]$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
[sudo] password for armando: 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.8 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.8 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Building Guest Additions kernel modules.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.

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[armando@localhost VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.8_111374]$ cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-service.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-x11.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service.

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[armando@localhost VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.8_111374]$ sudo dnf install kernel-headers-$(uname -r) kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
Last metadata expiration check: 3:12:30 ago on Fri Nov 11 12:09:21 2016.
Package kernel-headers-4.8.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
No package kernel-devel-4.8.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 available.
Error: Unable to find a match.

Already wen't thru all the steps in the logs and even those in this post, can you please help me?

[Perryg]

No package kernel-devel-4.8.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 available

You need to use a kernel that has the required packages available or build them your self from source.

[alopezv]

No package kernel-devel-4.8.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 available

You need to use a kernel that has the required packages available or build them your self from source.

Thanks, I'll do so.