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Trying to install Guest Additions I see:

sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 

The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following module compilation fails then this could be the reason. The missing package can be probably installed with yum install kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.el5

Building the main Guest Additions module [FAILED]

Trying to install kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.el5 I see:

yum install kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.el5

Setting up Install Process No package kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.el5 available. Nothing to do

What can be done with that?

Host OS is Windows 7 64 bit, Guest OS is RedHat 5.5 64 bit.

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Try kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.

It worked for me on Debian

Usually yum install kernel-headers picks the correct version by itself

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  • +1 , assuming this will install devel kernel packages. which solves the problem. Jan 11, 2013 at 15:45
  • @Znau I simply found that in Debian the devel package comes under the headers name. It just worked for me Jan 12, 2013 at 18:59
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    i normally just install dkms package and gcc. dkms depends on the devel kernel packages so it works for me. Jan 12, 2013 at 19:58

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