I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Guest on Ubuntu 12.04 Host using VirtualBox. Everything is from repository and no direct install. When I install the guest additions, the below error is shown in the console. Before running the command I mapped the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in the Guest.

The closest I could get is this article which says to install the latest version of VirtualBox (not the one from the repository). Is there any alternate solution?

sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run



Verifying archive integrity... All good.  

Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.12 Guest Additions for Linux.........  

VirtualBox Guest Additions installer  

Removing installed version 4.1.12 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...  

Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.  

Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done.  

Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules  

The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following  

module compilation fails then this could be the reason.



Building the main Guest Additions module ...fail!  

(Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong)  

Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done.  

Installing the Window System drivers  

Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.  Not installing  

X Window System drivers.  

Installing modules ...done.  

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done.