0004192: Error installing virtualbox guest additions (6.0.24.r139119 - Qt.5.6.1) on rocky linux 9.2 - Rocky Linux BugTracker

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0004192	Rocky-Linux-9	General	public	2023-09-12 09:25	2025-04-09 15:43

Reporter	Sistemi Arcadja	Assigned To	Louis Abel
Priority	high	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	not fixable

Summary	0004192: Error installing virtualbox guest additions (6.0.24.r139119 - Qt.5.6.1) on rocky linux 9.2
Description	I tried to install the virtualbox guest additions on rocky linux 9.2 (updated 09/11/2023) but I received the following error: ----------- Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.0.24 Guest Additions for Linux........ VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 6.0.24 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Copying additional installer modules ... Installing additional modules ... VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting. VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules. This may take a while. VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version> VirtualBox Guest Additions: or VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64. VirtualBox Guest Additions: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log to find out what went wrong ValueError: File context for /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.0.24/other/mount.vboxsf already defined modprobe vboxguest failed The log file /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log may contain further information. ----------- in the log file I saw: ----------- gcc -Wp,-MMD,/tmp/vbox.0/.VBoxGuest.o.d -nostdinc -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/compiler-version.h -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security -std=gnu11 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -fcf-protection=none -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -mindirect-branch-cs-prefix -mfunction-return=thunk-extern -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-address-of-packed-member -O2 -fno-allow-store-data-races -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector-strong "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" -Wno-main -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-const-variable -fno-stack-clash-protection -g -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -fno-inline-functions-called-once -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wcast-function-type -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Wno-alloc-size-larger-than -fno-strict-overflow -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -Wno-packed-not-aligned -Wno-declaration-after-statement -fno-pie -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/VBoxGuestMangling.h -I./include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE -DVBOX -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_GUEST -DIN_GUEST_R0 -DIN_MODULE -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBGL_VBOXGUEST -DVBOX_WITH_HGCM -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"VBoxGuest"' -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"vboxguest"' -D__KBUILD_MODNAME=kmod_vboxguest -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest.o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest.c ; ./tools/objtool/objtool --hacks=jump_label --hacks=noinstr --orc --retpoline --rethunk --static-call --uaccess --module /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest.o In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/types.h:34, from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:37, from /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest-linux.c:36: /tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/stdarg.h:47:12: fatal error: stdarg.h: File o directory non esistente 47 \| # include <stdarg.h> \| ^~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[2]: * [scripts/Makefile.build:321: /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest-linux.o] Errore 1 make[2]: * Attesa per i processi non terminati.... In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/types.h:34, from /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuestInternal.h:33, from /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest.c:54: /tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/stdarg.h:47:12: fatal error: stdarg.h: File o directory non esistente 47 \| # include <stdarg.h> \| ^~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[2]: * [scripts/Makefile.build:321: /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxGuest.o] Errore 1 make[1]: * [Makefile:1923: /tmp/vbox.0] Error 2 make: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile-footer.gmk:117: vboxguest] Error 2 Could not find the X.Org or XFree86 Window System, skipping. modprobe vboxguest failed ----------- I then tried to search for the stdarg.h file to see if it was not present on the server but the result was the following: ----------- /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.0.24/src/vboxguest-6.0.24/vboxguest/include/iprt/stdarg.h /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.0.24/src/vboxguest-6.0.24/vboxsf/include/iprt/stdarg.h /opt/extra/stdarg.h /usr/include/c++/11/tr1/stdarg.h /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11/include/cross-stdarg.h /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11/include/stdarg.h /usr/share/man/man0p/stdarg.h.0p.gz /usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64/include/linux/stdarg.h /usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64/include/linux/stdarg.h ----------- I would like to point out that the kernel version in use on the virtual server is 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 and the virtualbox version installed on the physical server is 6.0.24.r139119. Online I saw that some people suggested switching to virtualbox 6.1.X, but since it is a production server that hosts online services I am not allowed to shut down the system to perform the update. Are there any patches or alternative procedures that allow me to install the virtualbox guest additions on rocky linux 9.2? Thank you.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-09-12 09:25	Sistemi Arcadja	New Issue
2025-04-09 15:43	Louis Abel	Assigned To	=> Louis Abel
2025-04-09 15:43	Louis Abel	Status	new => closed
2025-04-09 15:43	Louis Abel	Resolution	open => not fixable
2025-04-09 15:43	Louis Abel	Note Added: 0009765