#10709 closed defect (fixed)
building Fedora Rawhide guest additions fails (VB 4.1.18, 3.5.0-0.rc3 kernel)
| Reported by: | Andre Robatino | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.18 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | other |
Description
While trying to build the guest additions in a Fedora Rawhide guest:
Building the main Guest Additions module [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)
Attaching VBox.log and vboxadd-install.log.
Attachments (4)
Change History (18)
by , 12 years ago
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | vboxadd-install.log added |
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comment:1 by , 12 years ago
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
Not sure if I understood the instructions correctly. No vboxadd/ directory existed in /usr/src/vboxguest-4.1.18/ in the guest, so I went into that directory and did "mkdir -p vboxadd/r0drv/linux" and then copied the file into that directory. When running /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup in the guest, the build fails again.
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
Sorry, I wrote these instructions out of my head and it was already late :) Replace vboxadd by vboxguest. There must be already a file memobj-r0drv-linux.c in it, just replace it with the one from the host.
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
Just a heads up that 3.5.0 is likely to be pushed to F17 stable very soon.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-11323/kernel-3.5.0-2.fc17
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | memobj-r0drv-linux.c added |
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/usr/src/vboxhost-4.1.18/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c from F17 x86_64 host
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
I attached a copy of memobj-r0drv-linux.c from my F17 x86_64 host for the benefit of people who aren't using Linux hosts (see https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=50748 ). 3.5.0 has been pushed to F17 stable.
by , 12 years ago
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.1.18/build/make.log after running "dkms install vboxguest/4.1.18 -k 3.6.0-0.rc0.git8.1.fc18.x86_64" (while running 3.5.0 kernel). This is after applying the patch for the 3.5.0 kernel.
comment:6 by , 12 years ago
It appears I can't build the guest additions for the Rawhide 3.6.0 kernel either, even after applying the above patch. (This is using "dkms install" while running the 3.5.0 kernel.) Should I file a new ticket for 3.6.0?
comment:8 by , 12 years ago
Building the kernel modules for the newly-released 3.5.1 kernel also fails on Fedora Core 17:
make[1]: * No rule to make target /usr/src/kernels/3.5.1-1.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl', needed by arch/x86/syscalls/../include/generated/asm/unistd_32.h'. Stop.
make: * [archheaders] Error 2
comment:9 by , 12 years ago
I have pulled the kernel modules from rpmfusion and they seem to work: Name : kmod-VirtualBox Arch : x86_64 Version : 4.1.18 Release : 1.fc17.5 Size : 8.6 k Repo : rpmfusion-free-updates Summary : Metapackage which tracks in VirtualBox kernel module for newest
: kernel
URL : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox License : GPLv2 or CDDL Description : This is a meta-package without payload which sole purpose is to
: require the VirtualBox kernel module(s) for the newest kernel. : to make sure you get it together with a new kernel.
comment:10 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
4.1.20 contains compile fixes for Linux 3.5 and Linux 3.6-rc2.
comment:11 by , 12 years ago
Even with VirtualBox 4.1.20, running dkms install for a given kernel on either the host or the guest corrupts the corresponding kernel-devel package. In addition to causing times on many files to change (which happened before 3.5.0), which generates a large amount of output when running rpm -V on the package, it now causes the deletion of the corresponding /usr/src/kernels/*/System.map, which prevents drpms from the old to new kernel-devel from working (so it has to download the full kernel-devel RPM each time). (I would have reported this earlier, but had seen the problem with earlier kernels and assumed it would be fixed along with the guest additions problem. Sorry about that.)
Edit: Should I file a new ticket for the above issue?
comment:14 by , 12 years ago
VirtualBox 4.1.18 compiles fine with kernels 3.5
You may install VirtualBox-guest-4.1.18-1.fc17.x86_64 from rpmfusion and if you find any problem, you should report it on https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/
Please help us on rpmfusion and test our package.
Yes, this fix did it not make into the 4.1.18 release anymore. This was only fixed for the host drivers but not for the guest drivers. Just copy the file /usr/src/vboxhost-4.1.18/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c from your host to /usr/src/vboxguest-4.1.18/vboxadd/r0drv/linux in your guest, then do /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup in your guest. This will be properly fixed in the next maintenance release.