install guest additions virtualbox rhel 7

You can verify this by looking at the running kernel with uname -aĪnd the installed sources at ls /usr/src/kernelsĪs a final conclusion, whatever happens, look at the messages and log files provided. So, running kernel and installed kernel sources (aka kernel-devel) must match. After installing the proper kernel-devel package, building and then installing worked as expected. Now it complained about missing header files and suggested to do yum install kernel-devel-2.6.86_64Īs you can see, this is a slightly different version, 504.16.2 vs just 504. In the drop down menu click on Insert Guest Additions CD Image. Since kernel-devel and sources at /usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 were already installed, I was confused, but called it with the requested environment variable KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 sh /media/cdrom/n Just power on your VM and on the console look out for Devices from the top menu. There it said something about missing kernel sources and to provide the kernel source directory with e.g. In my case, one of them asked to look into /var/log/vboxadd-install.log. If it doesn't work for you, look at the messages.

Answer almost worked, but it failed building some kernel modules.

Install guest additions virtualbox rhel 7