CentOS 6.2: VirtualBox Guest Additions -> Error: unable to find the sources ...

[tigalch]

The above mentioned error with building the openGL module is solved with the release of vBox 4.3.8

[ngcat]

Is it too late to contribute to this thread? I found that gcc and kernel-devel was not included with the generic desktop install so also needed to do

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yum install -y gcc kernel-devel

after running the updates and rebooting.

FYI this also workes on a Centos 7.0 system.

[rfay]

One more thing for Centos 6.6: I had to install perl before it would work.

yum install perl

[sirahngelu]

Is it too late to contribute to this thread? I found that gcc and kernel-devel was not included with the generic desktop install so also needed to do

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yum install -y gcc kernel-devel

after running the updates and rebooting.

I've done that, still error.
so I check the error message:

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# tail /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:183: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.

I check the KERN_DIR value:

# echo $KERN_DIR

it's empty,

so I find the value with:
rpm -ql kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686

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/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/tools/virtio
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/tools/virtio/virtio-trace
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/tools/virtio/virtio-trace/Makefile
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/usr
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/usr/Kconfig
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/usr/Makefile
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686/virt
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Then set KERN_DIR value:

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export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.i686

Then

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

return OK

HTH
sirahngelu banget

[nkreadlykimi]

Running yum install -y gcc kernel-devel on my centos7 worked. Thank you so much!