DEBIAN 8 - vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.
Posted: 24. Apr 2017, 10:57
When trying to install Guest Additions on my Debian 8 Jessie Guest I receive the following error:
When I look at the log it states:cephasiii@3butz:/media/cdrom$ ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.20 Guest Additions for Linux...........
This program must be run with administrator privileges. Aborting
cephasiii@3butz:/media/cdrom$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.20 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.20 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file
/var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciatedvboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: modprobe vboxguest failed.