Install of Guest Additions 1.6.4 on guest Fedora 10 fails

[Jerry Williams]

Host is Windows Vista 64-bit. Guest is Fedora 10 i386. kernel-2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.i686 ​https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459183 It should also passing a -Iinclude/asm/mach-whatever

# cat vboxadd-install.log

Installing VirtualBox 1.6.4 Guest Additions, built Tue Jul 29 20:13:59 CEST 2008

Testing the setup of the guest system

Building a test kernel module...

make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.i686/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test SRCROOT=/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (           \
        echo;                                                           \
        echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
        echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
        echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";  \
        echo;                                                           \
        /bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/.test.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.3.1/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -I/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.i686/arch/x86/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Os -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-stack-protector -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -I/lib/modules/2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.i686/build/include -I/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/ -I/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/include -I/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -D_X86_ -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBGL_VBOXGUEST -DVBGL_HGCM -DVBOX_HGCM -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(test)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxadd_test)" -c -o /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.o /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:12,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:28,
                 from include/linux/topology.h:33,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:683,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c:11:
include/asm/mpspec.h:9:25: error: mach_mpspec.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:12,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:28,
                 from include/linux/topology.h:33,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:683,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c:11:
include/asm/mpspec.h:39: error: ‘MAX_MP_BUSSES’ undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:15,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:28,
                 from include/linux/topology.h:33,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:683,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c:11:
include/asm/io_apic.h:149: error: ‘MAX_IRQ_SOURCES’ undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from include/linux/smp.h:28,
                 from include/linux/topology.h:33,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:683,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c:11:
include/asm/smp.h:187:28: error: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/smp.h:28,
                 from include/linux/topology.h:33,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:683,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.c:11:
include/asm/smp.h: In function ‘hard_smp_processor_id’:
include/asm/smp.h:191: error: implicit declaration of function ‘GET_APIC_ID’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test/test.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz312716198/module/test] Error 2
make: *** [vboxadd_test] Error 2

Building the test kernel module failed.
Giving up due to the problems mentioned above.

[Frank Mehnert]

I'm not sure if this is a bug in VirtualBox. The include directories are taken from the kernel config.

[Jerry Williams]

Would it be possible for someone to pop into #fedora-kernel on irc.freenode.org?

[Frank Mehnert]

Actually this is definitely a packaging bug. I've just downloaded that rpm package and compiled the module against these headers as well. The kernel Makefile adds -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-generic -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default to the include directory search path (this can be seen in your log as well) but this directory is not packaged. Instead, the package contains only the asm directory which should actually be a symbolic link to asm-x86 in that case. So this is definitely a bug of the rpm package.

Closing.