VirtualBox is of course the most suitable virtualization solution to run BackTrack. Unfortunately, with this latest version of BackTrack, the VirtualBox Guest Additions cannot be installed on a fresh new install. Fortunately after some modifications, everything can be fixed to compile these additions for the 3.2.6 Linux Kernel of BackTrack 5 R2.

Download and Install

• BackTrack: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
• VirtualBox + Oracle VM Extension Pack: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

usb 1-1: Device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-1: Device descriptor read/64, error -110

Solution

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)

Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions …fail!
(modprobe vboxguest failed)

Solution

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-headers xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core file-roller # file-roller is not needed, but recommended
cd /usr/src/
tar jxf linux-source-3.2.6.tar.bz2
cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.6/include/
rm asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-3.2.6/arch/x86/include/asm asm
cd /lib/modules/3.2.6/
ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.6 build

Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.10 Guest Additions for Linux……….
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.1.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions…
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules …done.
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules …done.
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
Building the main Guest Additions module …done.
Building the shared folder support module …done.
Building the OpenGL support module …done.
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions …done.
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
Installing the Window System drivers
Installing X.Org Server 1.7 modules …done.
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions …done.
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components …done.
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