How to solve "building the main Guest Additions module Failed"
You lack the make
command. Make is a utility that is often used to build programs from source; it runs the compiler on every source file in the right order. You need to install the make
package, and possibly others: the C compiler, and the kernel headers (files generated during the compilation of the Linux kernel, that are necessary to compile third-party modules).
I hardly ever use CentOS, but I think the right command is:
yum install gcc make kernel-devel
or (will install more than you need)
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
You may need to install other packages as well.
You need to run this command as root; depending on whether you use su
or sudo
:
su -c 'yum install …'
sudo yum install …
On a current CentOS 7 minimal install you need:
sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel-$(uname -r)