Virtualbox 7.x wrong Guest Additions info at Runtime Information

[Richard E van der Luit]

I noticed Virtualbox 7.x wrong Guest Additions info at Runtime Information. It is something i am seeing for a long time now (7.x and back 6.x).

sudo VBoxControl guestproperty enumerate

reports the right version though, but Machine -> Session Information -> Runtime Information' is reporting 6.0.0 r127566 for a long time now, in all my linux guests on linux hosts; no matter what kernel or linux version of Fedora i use or have used. My windowsVM does report the right version btw. There are no other GA files on the guest machines but 7.0.6

[Richard E van der Luit]

If you deinstall virtualbox-guest-additions, Runtime Information still reports GA 6.0.0 being active. There is indeed a vboxguest module loaded. When blacklisting that module, RI reports there is no GA active. Installing GA 7.0.6 results in RI reporting GA 6.0.0 again. Log reports once:"VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.0.0 r127566 '6.0.0'" although all other relevant records report "VBoxClient 7.0.6_Fedora r155176". Where does RI gets its information from?

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Problem is related to Fedoras OS installer Anaconda, which uses GA 6.0.0 for its initial installation screen before installing to hard drive. Once installed, GA 6.1.38 appears to be active, although RI still reports GA 6.0.0 active.

[Richard E van der Luit]

removing virtualbox-guest-additions from Fedora update and using the virtualbox-guest-additions.iso from this site did the trick. Generating new modules in guest and rebooting solved this somehow. Sorry for the ticket :/