[CentOS] VirtualBox extensions and the new kernel

Tue Oct 1 11:29:23 UTC 2019
isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com>

Klaus Kolle writes:
> I've been running Centos for different purposes in a VirtualBox
> environment for quite long now. But the newest kernels miss something so
> I can get the VirtualBox Extensions linked in.
> 
> I can see in the virtualbox log file that I shall run maken oldconfig
> and make, but I get these errors:
> 
> # make oldconfig && make prepare
> scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl',
> needed by `arch/x86/syscalls/../include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h'.
>  Stop.
> make: *** [archheaders] Error 2
> 
> Probably it is something that I misses, but what, I cannot figure out.
> 
> I see the problem both in Centos 7.7 and 8

Known problem. The fixes are not released yet.

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18917