On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 4:34 AM John Thompson via AlmaLinux Users <users@lists.almalinux.org> wrote:

I'm trying to update my VirtualBox installation to VirtualBox-7.2-7.2.12_174389_el9-1.x86_64.rpm on my Almalinux-9.8 machine, but the kernel modules fail to build. Here is the tail of the log file:

CC [M] /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/combined-os-specific.o In file included from /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/combined-os-specific.c:43: /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/fileio-r0drv-linux.c: In function ‘VBoxHost_RTFileOpen’: /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/fileio-r0drv-linux.c:162:30: error: implicit declaration of function ‘open_with_fake_path’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 162 | struct file *pFile = open_with_fake_path(&Path, fOpenMode, d_inode(Path.dentry), current_cred()); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/fileio-r0drv-linux.c:162:30: warning: initialization of ‘struct file *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/combined-os-specific.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [Makefile:1968: /usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-687.20.1.el9_8.x86_64' make[1]: *** [/usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/Makefile-footer.gmk:146: vboxdrv] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv' make: *** [Makefile:78: vboxdrv] Error 2

Any ideas?

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-John (JohnDThompson@gmail.com) Appleton, WI USA

Try this solution/workaround: https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virtualbox-7-1-rocky-9-8/20579/6 Akemi