I am trying to install Virtualbox Guest Additions on a new Debian 9 installation and get an error when building modules. Packages build-essential, module-assistant, dpkg, linux-headers-4.0.3 are installed:
$ sudo apt install build-essential dpkg linux-headers-4.0.3-3
$ sudo apt build-dep -y linux
To install the Additions I run:
$ sudo mount -o remount,exec,ro /media/cdrom0
$ sudo /media/cdrom0/VBoxLinuxAddons.run
And get the error:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.6 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.6 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.
sergiy@debian-pc-1:~$
Log /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log contains:
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd.service → /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 → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd-x11.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service.
File /var/log/vboxadd-install.log contains:
grep: /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 -j1 modules
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd64 KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common \
-f /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/Makefile 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 /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
gcc-6 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.VBoxGuest-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/arch/x86/
------------------------------------------------
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:98:0,
from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/include/linux/mm.h:1298:6: note: declared here
long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/scripts/Makefile.build:298: recipe for target '/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/Makefile:1507: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/vbox.0' failed
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
Makefile:150: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.footer:84: recipe for target 'vboxguest' failed
make: *** [vboxguest] Error 2
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.
Output uname -a:
Linux debian-pc-1 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u1 (2017-06-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
Result of command dpkg -l | grep virtualbox on host Ubuntu 16.10:
ii virtualbox 5.1.6-dfsg-2 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
rc virtualbox-5.1 5.1.22-115126~Ubuntu~yakkety amd64 Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-dkms 5.1.6-dfsg-2 all x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-qt 5.1.6-dfsg-2 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
ii virtualbox-source 5.1.6-dfsg-2 all x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source
File /etc/apt/sources.list in Debian guest:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
ISO with Virtualbox addons 5.1.6 was downloaded by VirtualBox from official site. What's wrong? How to fix it?
uname -ain your question. Also, perhaps more pertinently, where did you get your VB Additions from? – Faheem Mitha Jul 19 '17 at 11:45virtualbox-guest-additions-isoprovides the Virtualbox Additions (not addons) that you are trying to install. Please include the output ofdpkg -l | grep virtualboxin your question. – Faheem Mitha Jul 19 '17 at 15:04dpkg -l | grep virtualboxgets empty result, it is guest system, not host. – Сергей Матийчук Jul 20 '17 at 10:07