Error while installing VirtualBox-guest-additions?

Question

Windows 7 as host machine and Ubuntu 12.04 server as guest (Virtual Box)

Got this error while installing VirtualBox-guest-additions

The gcc utility was not found.If the following module compilation fails then this could
be the reason & you should try installing it. Building the main guest additions module..fail !!
(Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find what went wrong)
could not find the X.org or XFree86 Window System, skipping !!

I read the /var/log/vboxadd-install.log file & found this which is again i can't understood

/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.20/src/vboxguest-4.3.20/build_in_tmp: 62: /opt/VBox$t/VBox
GuestAdditions-4.3.20/src/vboxguest-4.3.20/build_in_tmp: make: not found

Creating user for the guest additions.`Creating udev rule for the guest additions kernel module.`

What's this all means ? Please help me out guys .Thanks

Solution

Unless you really need features only available with 4.3.20, I would suggest to use the guest additions from the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils

Restart your VM to apply the changes.

Comments

[Admin]

@RPi_Awesomeness Thanks for edit but seems like that was not the code !! Let it be , please help me out now

[Admin]

In order to be able to compile and install the guest additions you need to install the appropriate compiler (gcc) and the make utility (sudo apt-get install gcc make). See askubuntu.com/questions/22743/…

[guntbert]

This applies only if the GA version matches the VBox version installed in the host, which is very unlikely with a Windows host.