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budu

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 8

Problem starting X.org on VirtualBox guest

Hi, I'm trying to get X.org running on a fresh installation of ArchLinux installed as a guest OS in VirtualBox, but hit a wall. I've installed the Guest Additions, but there's an error message:

    ln: failed to create symbolic link '/use/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so': No such file or directory

Evidently X isn't starting as it fail to open the vboxvideo module:

    (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo

I've not found any way to resolve that problem, can anybody help me? Would I be better off with ArchLinux virtualbox-guest-additions package?

zer4tul

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Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 3

Re: Problem starting X.org on VirtualBox guest

install another driver, such as xf86-video-vesa. and then, try again.

it failed because the path "/use/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/" does not exist. so you also can mkdir by your hand.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,546

Re: Problem starting X.org on VirtualBox guest

vboxvideo is in package virtualbox-guest-additions

budu

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 8

Re: Problem starting X.org on VirtualBox guest

it failed because the path "/use/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/" does not exist. so you also can mkdir by your hand.

That was it, I created this directory, reinstalled the guest additions and it work now! Thanks a lot!!!