Can't build Linux Guest Additions for Fedora 9 preview => Fixed in 1.6

[Lucas]

uname : Linux 2.6.25-1.fc9.i686' gcc -v : gcc version 4.3.0 20080416 (Red Hat 4.3.0-7) (GCC)

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run : Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.5.7 Guest Additions for Linux installation....... VirtualBox 1.5.7 Guest Additions installation Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module... Building the shared folder support kernel module... Unable to build the kernel module. See the log file /var/log/vboxadd-install.log for more details.

tail -30 /var/log/vboxadd-install.log :

gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.1/.vfsmod.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.3.0/include -DKERNEL -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Os -fno-stack-protector -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -mtune=generic -ffreestanding -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-generic -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fshort-wchar -I/lib/modules/2.6.25-1.fc9.i686/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.1/ -I/tmp/vbox.1/include -I/tmp/vbox.1/r0drv/linux -DKERNEL -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -D_X86_ -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX_HGCM -DLOG_TO_BACKDOOR -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(vfsmod)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxvfs)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.o /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c

In file included from /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c:95: /tmp/vbox.1/dirops.c: In function ‘sf_lookup’: /tmp/vbox.1/dirops.c:289: error: implicit declaration of function ‘iget’ /tmp/vbox.1/dirops.c:289: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast /tmp/vbox.1/dirops.c: In function ‘sf_instantiate’: /tmp/vbox.1/dirops.c:341: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c: In function ‘sf_read_super_aux’: /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c:260: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c: At top level: /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c:373: error: unknown field ‘read_inode’ specified in initializer /tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.c:373: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[2]: * tmp/vbox.1/vfsmod.o Error 1 make[1]: * [_module_/tmp/vbox.1] Error 2 make: * [vboxvfs] Error 2

Hope this helps. Best regards.

[Aylwin]

Replying to philo: I have the same problem except that the host OS is Vista.

[Frank Mehnert]

Note that we will still not fully support Fedora9. They are using Xorg 1.5.0 RC1 which is still kind of experimental. Therefore the X modules will not work for this distributions. The other services (timesync, shared folders) will work with 1.6.