https://donfiguerres.com/posts/virtualbox/Recent content in VirtualBox on Don FiguerresHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://donfiguerres.com/posts/virtualbox/centos-7-virtualbox-5-2/Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://donfiguerres.com/posts/virtualbox/centos-7-virtualbox-5-2/<h2 id="issue">Issue</h2> <p>A recent linux kernel update (3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64) caused the VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.2 in my CentOS7 box to break.</p> <p>Error message:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="display:flex;"><span>/tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.c: In <span style="color:#66d9ef">function</span> ‘hgsmi_send_caps_info’: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>/tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.c:99:2: error: implicit declaration of <span style="color:#66d9ef">function</span> ‘AssertRC’ <span style="color:#f92672">[</span>-Werror<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>implicit-function-declaration<span style="color:#f92672">]</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> AssertRC<span style="color:#f92672">(</span>p-&gt;rc<span style="color:#f92672">)</span>;^M </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ^ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>cc1: some warnings being treated as errors </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>make<span style="color:#f92672">[</span>2<span style="color:#f92672">]</span>: *** <span style="color:#f92672">[</span>/tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.o<span style="color:#f92672">]</span> Error <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>make<span style="color:#f92672">[</span>1<span style="color:#f92672">]</span>: *** <span style="color:#f92672">[</span>_module_/tmp/vbox.0<span style="color:#f92672">]</span> Error <span style="color:#ae81ff">2</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>make: *** <span style="color:#f92672">[</span>vboxvideo<span style="color:#f92672">]</span> Error <span style="color:#ae81ff">2</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>More information is in this <a href="https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=85080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtualbox thread</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17163" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtualbox ticket</a></p> <h2 id="resolution">Resolution</h2> <p>An updated VirtualBox Guest Additions installer which contains the fix can now be downloaded from the <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtualbox website</a>.</p>