Saturday, 22 May 2021

Troubleshoot Virtual box guest additions issues

Install gcc, gcc make and update all the packages.

yum -y install gcc

yum -y install gcc make


yum update -y


run the guest additions software

If it prompts to fix devel then run below command.



yum -y install kernel-uek-devel-‘uname -r’


After it is successful run below command to complete the setup.


/sbin/rcvboxadd setup


You may run into below error


ValueError: File context for /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.1.22/other/mount.vboxsf already defined


To Fix the above error : Run on host machine.


semanage fcontext -d /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<VERSION>/other/mount.vboxsf

restorecon /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<VERSION>/other/mount.vboxsf


Then 


/sbin/rcvboxadd setup

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