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SliTaz 3.0, VirtualBox 3.2.6 Guest Additions, and errors
  • mrschismmrschism July 2010
    Well, I figure here's the best place to start. When installing the Guest Additions for VirtualBox, I get an error :

    [output omitted]
    Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ... fail!
    Your system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules. Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
    [output omitted]

    Well, upon checking the vboxadd-install.log, I get the following:

    /usr/share/VBoxGuestAdditions/test/build_in_tmp: line 104: make: not found

    Mind you, that's just the first of a few errors. I want to tackle them one at a time and bring the end results over to the VirtualBox forum (as a few people there are having issues). Any help would be appreciated.

    I'm having a nearly identical issue with my Puppy 5 VBox and I'm going off of this:
    http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15679

    Only issue is that I can't seem to manage to get what it's telling me to before actual install.

    ~MrSchism
  • seawolfseawolf July 2010
    Install the 'slitaz-toolchain' package, this provides 'make' and other utilities for building software. For the kernel module, you will also need to install 'linux-headers'.

    Hope this helps.

    ( I just had a look at the documentation page we have for VirtualBox and it only covers installing SliTaz as a guest; the Additions side of it should be added. It's in need of a clean-up too...
    => http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:virtualbox )
  • mrschismmrschism July 2010
    Thanks. Here's an update....

    I ran tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain and got it. It also installed the following missing dependencies: 'binutils', 'linux-headers', 'glibc-dev', 'gcc', 'make'.

    Re-ran the VBox Additions script. Same error as above. When I check the log, I get the following:

    Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again.. Stop.

    I mean, I'm not a brand-spanking noob... but this is a tad beyond my un-aided reach.

  • seawolfseawolf July 2010
    Hmm strange; I've never seen that one! If you're sure the linux-headers package downloaded fine (it probably did if the toolchain pulled it in) then specify KERN_DIR as it asks. It should be either:
    export KERN_DIR="/usr/include"
    export KERN_DIR="/usr/include/linux"

    I've just mounted the Guest Additions ISO and installed it to my SliTaz *host* machine, so it can be done. (It complains about starting but that's to be expected.)
  • mrschismmrschism July 2010
    Okay, where do I specify it?

    I tried each of those in a terminal (as root) and got nothing.

    At this point, I'm at the point where if I knew someone who'd do it, I'd let someone RDP into it and I'd watch how they do it.
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