id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7774,VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run needs prerequsites sanity check -> will probably fix some time,godwinchan,,"VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run doesn't do sanity check for the existence of 3 components required for the compilation of kernel modules for Guest Additions (at least under Ubuntu 10.10). For Ubuntu it is: dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic

If the modules are not installed. The script runs, and say it is creating and installing the modules but it doesn't actually make the components.

But lsmod | grep vbox there will be no vboxsf there.

Basically a rehash of the following post, but want to report that adding some kind of sanity check would be nice.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=15679",defect,closed,guest additions,VirtualBox 3.2.10,wontfix,sanity check,,Linux,Mac OS X