GA won't install on CentOS 8

[RandyB]

Errors out with "not able to find kernel modules"

[RandyB]

Module install demo

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

please share the additions install log file

/var/log/vboxadd-setup.log
/var/log/vboxadd-install.log

fwiw, I cannot reproduce the problem with 6.0.14.

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

cannot reproduce, closing:

[fbatschu@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 24 11:32:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[fbatschu@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="8 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 8 (Core)"
 
 
[root@localhost VBox_GAs_6.1.0]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.0 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.0.14 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules.  This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel
4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
 
=> reboot
 
[fbatschu@localhost ~]$ dmesg|grep vbox
[    1.159789] vboxguest: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    1.160093] vboxguest: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    1.174778] vboxguest: Successfully loaded version 6.1.0
[    1.174791] vboxguest: misc device minor 58, IRQ 20, I/O port d040, MMIO at 00000000f2400000 (size 0x400000)
[    1.174792] vboxguest: Successfully loaded version 6.1.0 (interface 0x00010004)
[   15.981173] vboxsf: g_fHostFeatures=0x8000000f g_fSfFeatures=0x1 g_uSfLastFunction=29
[   15.981236] vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.1.0
[   15.981252] vboxsf: Successfully loaded version 6.1.0 on 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions (LINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x41200)