This tutorial leads straight on from ‘How to install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 on Virtualbox’ and assumes that you have a clean install to work from.
If you haven’t installed OEL6 or have any problems with this tutorial, I recommend that you follow that tutorial before this one.
So, in virtual box, Guest additions gives you some cool stuff like improved mouse pointer integration and having shared folders between your host and your guest operating system and this makes it a lot easier to transfer files to your virtual machine.
All of the subsequent tutorials will assume that you have Guest additions installed.
It should be simple! You just click the menu item, the system mounts some files and runs them and hey presto, guest additions are installed and working. Unfortunately, in Oracle Linux 6, it doesn’t work. The process completes but the install does not work.
The good news is that once you know how, you can fix this easily.
First, make sure that you can see the Virtialbox menubar at he top of the window. If youare in scale mode pres R. CTRL and ‘C’ to exit into normal mode.
Next, go to the ‘Devices’ menu and click ‘Install Guest Additions’
Install Virtualbox Guest Additions
Click Autorun
An icon should appear on your desktop and a dialog will ask you what to do. Just click ‘OK’
Click run at the next prompt then enter your root password to authenticate.
The install script will run but will fail:
The install script will fail to install the guest additions
You are told to to look in the logfile:/var/log/vboxadd-install.log
where you will see the error:
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.header:97: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again
So, as you may have guessed, you need to install the kernel source.
The script actually gives you the instructions that you need to follow. In this case it suggests that you run
