VBoxGuestAdditions fails for compile vboxvideo_drm.c

[profkonyn]

When installing VBoxGuestAdditions on a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 guest on a Windows 7 x64 host, the installer fails with

Building the OpenGL support module [FAILED]

The kernel information for the guest system is: Linux xxx 2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 13:47:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

An extract from the build log file: (see attachment) /tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:114: warning: braces around scalar initializer /tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:114: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’) /tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:115: error: field name not in record or union initializer

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the report. You can find the fix in r42164. You can apply this fix manually to the guest module and after that execute

/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

This should successfully compile the guest modules.

[Michael Thayer]

Or you can try this test build from the stable branch (usual disclaimer applies):

​http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.19-79161.iso

[steve]

Expanding on the above, the following commands can be used:

cd /usr/src/vboxguest-4.1.18/vboxvideo
sudo mv vboxvideo_drm.c vboxvideo_drm.c.orig
sudo svn export -r 42164 https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/drm/vboxvideo_drm.c
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

[Frank Mehnert]

Fixed in VBox 4.1.20.

[decaf]

This bug also affects Debian 6.0 Backports 3.2.x kernel.

Debian 7.0 fix: ​http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1110037.html

Kernel installed from ​http://backports.debian.org

[Frank Mehnert]

The Debian problem is covered in #11634.