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How to solve “building the main Guest Additions module Failed”
Question：
I tried to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions module in a VM guest running CentOS but I get this error message when everything else was okay:
building the main Guest Additions module Failed
Answer：
You lack the make command. Make is a utility that is often used to build programs from source; it runs the compiler on every source file in the right order. You need to install the make package, and possibly others: the C compiler, and the kernel headers (files generated during the compilation of the Linux kernel, that are necessary to compile third-party modules).
I hardly ever use CentOS, but I think the right command is:
yum install gcc make kernel-devel
or (will install more than you need)
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
You may need to install other packages as well.
You need to run this command as root; depending on whether you use su or sudo:
su -c 'yum install …'
sudo yum install …
如何在VirtualBox 4.2.12下安装 CentOS 的 增强包，可以参考：
[ 教你在VirtualBox中的CentOS 6.3下安装VirtualBox增强包(GuestAddition) ]