Building the main Guest Additions modu

I tried to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions module in a VM guest running CentOS but I get this error message when everything else was okay:  building the main Guest Additions module Failed Since I'm very new to CentOS and VirtualBox, I have no idea about to solve this and wasnt able to find any solution searching the internet (the only post I found didnt help me). Here is the log : /usr/src/vboxguest-4.1.14/vboxguest/build_in_tmp: line 55: make : command not found Creating user for the Guest additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest additions kernel module Any ideas? Thanks centos  compiling  software-installation  virtualbox  kernel-modules share improve this question edited May 4 '12 at 0:01 Gilles 363k 66 651 1099 asked  May 3 '12 at 21:14 Miles M. 205 1 3 9

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You lack the make command. Make is a utility that is often used to build programs from source; it runs the compiler on every source file in the right order. You need to install the make package, and possibly others: the C compiler, and the kernel headers (files generated during the compilation of the Linux kernel, that are necessary to compile third-party modules). I hardly ever use CentOS, but I think the right command is: yum install gcc make kernel-devel or (will install more than you need) yum groupinstall "Development Tools" You may need to install other packages as well. You need to run this command as root; depending on whether you use su or sudo: su -c 'yum install …' sudo yum install … share improve this answer answered  May 4 '12 at 0:01 Gilles 363k 66 651 1099

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up vote 1 down vote	On a current CentOS 7 minimal install you need: sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel-$(uname -r) share improve this answer answered  Apr 1 '15 at 14:19 TNT 141 4
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All i did to fix this problem is followed the suggestion by guest additions installer: The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following module compilation fails then this could be the reason. The missing package can be probably installed with yum install kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.215.10.el6uek.i686 After that i just retried to run guest additions installer and everything went perfect. share improve this answer answered  Jan 13 '15 at 13:08 Zydrunas 1

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For CentOS 7 I needed to do install DKMS via epel. Here is my complete list of commands. sudo wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm sudo yum install dkms -y sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y sudo yum install kernel-devel -y sudo yum upgrade -y reboot the vm After reboot - I used vagrant vbguest (https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest) to install Guest Additions. Hope this helps, share improve this answer answered  Jun 25 '15 at 19:15 max kaplan 1 1

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