Thursday, May 10, 2018

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Centos7

Apparently in latest VB releases the Guest Additions have to be built directly on the image.

This of course is a pain, because OOTB the Centos7 image doesn't contain the development tools. SO you get a message like "building the main Guest Additions module Failed"


https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37866/how-to-solve-building-the-main-guest-additions-module-failed


this fixed the problem:

sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel-$(uname -r)

sudo su -
cd /run/media/centos/VBox_GAs_5.2.12/
./autorun.sh





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