Article 587GM Guest Additions Install Fails Install without any error

Guest Additions Install Fails Install without any error

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JockVSJock
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Don't know why this won't install correctly the 1st time. Earlier this year did an install and it took a few times before it finally installed. Just re-running the same commands over.

Just did an install and no errors. Both vboxadd-install.log and vboxadd-setup.log.2 don't show any errors.

Checking modules shows the following
Code:vboxsf 81052 0
vboxguest 349038 0 vboxsf
Here are my notes on the steps that I took:

Quote:

install latest kernel

mount VB Guest Additions

install the following package: yum install -y epel-release or go to home page to get the correct URL:

https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

install the following packages either by repo or hand: gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl

add running kernel env variable: KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`

export KERN_DIR

- mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

install Guest Additions and run the following: ./VboxLinuxAdditions.run

Reboot
pretty much everything I find via Google.com doesn't talk about dealing when Guest Additions fails the install.latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=fyXXZx_AyQY:g19p0wbTj9M:F7zBnMy latest?i=fyXXZx_AyQY:g19p0wbTj9M:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=fyXXZx_AyQY:g19p0wbTj9M:gIN9vFwfyXXZx_AyQY
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