[Fixed] VBoxAdditions installation on Arch guest (Ubuntu host)

[reggler]

Hi,

I've mounted the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso and ran into this issue:

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$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
[sudo] password for ron:                                                     
Verifying archive integrity... All good.                                     
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.0.10 Guest Additions for Linux........            
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer                                         
Removing installed version 6.0.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...           
Copying additional installer modules ...                                     
Installing additional modules ...                                            
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.                                        
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel   
modules.  This may take a while.                                             
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>           
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or                                               
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all                 
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.3.1-arch1-1-ARCH.
                                                                             
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log to find out what 
went wrong                                                                   
om      VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until 
the system is restarted

/var/log/vboxadd-setup.log looks like this on the bottom:

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/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.c: In function ‘VBoxGuest_RTMpOnAll’:
/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.c:287:18: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
  287 |         int rc = smp_call_function(rtmpLinuxAllWrapper, &Args, 0 /* wait */);
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.c: In function ‘VBoxGuest_RTMpOnOthers’:
/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.c:341:8: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
  341 |     rc = smp_call_function(rtmpLinuxWrapper, &Args, 1 /* wait */);
      |        ^
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:281: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1624: _module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile-footer.gmk:111: vboxguest] Error 2
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looks like I might be missing something but what is it?

Thanks!

[socratis]

looks like I might be missing something but what is it?

The fact that you're using an old VirtualBox version (6.0.10) with the newest of kernels (5.3.1). If you want to use the latest version for your host/guests, you should also consider doing the same for VirtualBox. Download the latest VirtualBox, as of this writing, that would be version 6.0.12.

If that doesn't work you should definitely try the latest test builds.

[reggler]

I've not trie the latest test builds yet but tried VBox 6.0.12 on Windows and Linux host and both with the same result - I think my guest running Wayland might actually be the problem here.... this might not be supported by VBGAdditions yet....

[socratis]

I think my guest running Wayland might actually be the problem here.... this might not be supported by VBGAdditions yet...

VirtualBox supporting 3D in Wayland is one thing. The Guest Additions not compiling is a completely different one. I believe that if you try the 6.0.13 test builds you might be pleasantly surprised...

[reggler]

I think my guest running Wayland might actually be the problem here.... this might not be supported by VBGAdditions yet...

I believe that if you try the 6.0.13 test builds you might be pleasantly surprised...

You got it, it's been working great on both, Linux & Windows hosts Thanks a lot!

[socratis]

Great, thanks for the feedback. Marking as [Fixed].