Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-07, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Building the main Guest Additions module ...fail! > (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) > Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. > You have performed apt-get install build-essential module-assistant and m-a

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Harry Putnam wrote: > root # bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.40 Guest Additions for Linux 5.0.40 is pretty old, and Googling for "virtualbox linux 4.14 guest" shows a couple reports about the Guest Additions not

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Eike Lantzsch writes: > On Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:36:38 PM -03 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' >> install to allow for larger monitor resolution. >> >> When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find >> the header

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Eike Lantzsch writes: Harry wrote: >> What am I missing? > Eike Replied: > Did you by any chance install a kernel higher than 4.14.0-2 to check it out, > then went back to 4.14.0-2 or installed 4.14.0 and then went back to 4.9.0? > In that case VBox is most probably still looking for the headers

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-07 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:36:38 PM -03 Harry Putnam wrote: > Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' > install to allow for larger monitor resolution. > > When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find > the headers for the running kernel. > >

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-07 Thread Harry Putnam
"x9p" writes: > On Sat, January 6, 2018 11:36 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... >> (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) > ... > > the line above can explain a lot. Looked at that for some length before posting... it didn't explain dodo to me... didn't understand what I

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-07 Thread x9p
On Sat, January 6, 2018 11:36 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... > (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) ... the line above can explain a lot. cheers. -- x9p | PGP : 0x03B50AF5EA4C8D80 / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE "I don't know where I'm going fro

vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' install to allow for larger monitor resolution. When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find the headers for the running kernel. I have checked, rechecked and reinstalled the headers but still get the messag