guest additions do not build with 4.13 kernel

[Andre Robatino]

Got an error message while attempting to install guest additions in a Fedora Rawhide guest for the 4.13.0-0.rc0.git2.1.fc27.x86_64 kernel. I am using VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.23-115855.iso for which 4.12 does build.

vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.

[Andre Robatino]

Confirmed that it also fails with VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.23-116741.iso (the latest version). Will replace the two attachments just to be safe.

[Andre Robatino]

/var/log/vboxadd-install.log

[DTI]

Hello,

in kernel 4.13 wait_queue_t is renamed to wait_queue_entry_t

​https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-tip-commits/msg38415.html

You can change it in /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.23/src/vboxguest-5.1.23/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/waitqueue-r0drv-linux.h

Best regards Damian

[sergiomb]

ack wait_queue_t

VirtualBox-kmod-5.1.22.orig/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/waitqueue-r0drv-linux.h
49:    wait_queue_t    WaitQE;

VirtualBox-kmod-5.1.22.orig/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/waitqueue-r0drv-linux.h
49:    wait_queue_t    WaitQE;

please , what should be the patch to work with all kernels versions ?

[Andre Robatino]

Appears to be fixed in 5.1.24 (tested on the 4.13.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc27.x86_64 kernel). Thanks!

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the feedback!