/sbin/vboxconfig autoconf.h or auto.conf missing vbox 6.1.36 kernel 5.19

[gadame]

Hi,

I am having some issues with Virtual Box on Oracle Linux 8.6, I can't run the virtual machine because vboxconfig is failing.

[root@xxxxxx build]# /sbin/vboxconfig vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-setup.log to find out what went wrong.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run

/sbin/vboxconfig

as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

[root@xxxxxx build]# cat /var/log/vbox-setup.log Building the main VirtualBox module. Error building the module: make V=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL= -C /lib/modules/5.19.3-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64/build M=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 -j8 modules make[1]: warning: -j8 forced in submake: resetting jobserver mode.

ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.

include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing. Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.

make[1]: * [Makefile:739: include/config/auto.conf] Error 1 make: * vboxdrv Error 2

[root@xxxxxx build]# cd /lib/modules/5.19.3-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64/build [root@xxxxxx build]# make oldconfig lib/Kconfig.debug:2691: can't open file "Documentation/Kconfig" make[1]: * [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:77: oldconfig] Error 1 make: * [Makefile:629: oldconfig] Error 2

Installed versions

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akmod-VirtualBox-6.1.36-1.el8.x86_64 VirtualBox-kmodsrc-6.1.36-1.el8.noarch VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.36_152435_el8-1.x86_64 VirtualBox-guest-additions-6.1.36-1.el8.x86_64

kernel-ml-5.19.3-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64

it is failing with UEK kernel

kernel-uek-5.15.0-1.43.4.2.el8uek.x86_64

[gadame]

Hi,

I have downloaded the kernel source(same version) from kernel.org and copied 'Documentation' directory to /lib/modules/5.19.3-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64/build. Then I have executed the following procedure:

make oldconfig make prepare /sbin/vboxconfig

And VirtualBox is up and running!

Regards

[galitsyn]

Hi gadame,

I think you might want to install corresponding kernel-uek-devel package (and similar package for elrepo kernel) in order to come up with cleaner solution.