[xubuntu-users] virtualbox issue with linux/version.h and shared folders between guest and host

[Dan Hitt]

OK, thanks Roger, i'll try that.

Thanks again Ralf for your suggestion to look into the building
process, and if anybody else has any ideas, please let me know, and
for right now, i'll see if i can get onto the virtualbox forum.

dan




On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Roger <linux.rog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try going to the source for help:
>
> https://forums.virtualbox.org
>
> I've had good luck there, with a little bit of patience.
>
>
> On January 23, 2017 12:56:32 AM EST, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have an xubuntu 16.04 box which i'm attempting to use as a host for
>> an xubuntu 16.10  guest.
>>
>> On the host, i installed these packages for virtualbox:
>>   virtualbox
>>   virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
>>   virtualbox-ext-pack
>>   vde2
>>   virtualbox-qt
>>
>> On the guest, i installed the additions cd through the virtualbox gui,
>> which created a directory
>> /media/<<USERNAME>>/VBOXADDITIONS_5.0.24_108355 and in that directory,
>> i ran
>>   sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
>> but not very successfully.
>>
>> It errors out looking for the file
>>    /lib/modules/4.8.0-22-generic/build/include/linux/version.h
>>
>> So i've been trying to get that file installed.
>>
>> Following suggestions on the net, i've added these packages to the
>> guest (aside from emacs, which i sort of needed to install no matter
>> what):
>>   xserver-xorg
>>   xserver-xorg-core
>>   build-essential
>>
>> I believe that's the complete list, but it's possible that i installed
>> some other package in order to get the version.h header listed above.
>>
>> The net suggested doing
>>   sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
>> but when i try that, the system says that
>> linux-headers-4.8.0-22-generic is already the newest version.
>>
>> So i went to the packages.ubuntu.com site to see if i could find the
>> build/include/linux/version.h file.
>>
>> That didn't seem to be part of any package for 16.10.
>>
>> For reference, it looks like this issue comes up from time to time,
>> and usually some solution emerges, but this latest time
>> (October/November 2016), the issue has come up, but i haven't found
>> any solution yet.
>>
>> Also note that i have the directory of the file that it is looking
>> for, and similar sounding files, like vermagic.h, but not that exact
>> file.
>>
>> Bringing it up to this list because it seems like a pure xubuntu
>> matter (host and guest both xubuntu, and package for virtualbox also
>> coming from the usual ubuntu repository).
>>
>> (And the reason i want to install the additions is so i can share a
>> folder between guest and host.)
>>
>> TIA for any clues on how to deal with it!
>>
>> dan
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