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Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 5.x

This has been documented many times before, but for some reason installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS is a pain. To install them:

1. yum install kernel-devel gcc
2. either ln -s /usr/src/kernel/[current version] /usr/src/linux or
3. export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernel/[current version]
4. Then the usual ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-[arch].run

For whatever reason, the VirtualBox guest additions still expect to find the kernel headers in /usr/src/linux and not the location in which they are really installed to.

10. August 2010 by Jason
Categories: Virtualization | Tags: CentOS, VirtualBox | 1 comment