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hagakure

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 2

Cannot load modules vboxguest, vboxsf

I have a problem with virtualbox-guest-modules. I cannot modprobe vboxguest nor vboxsf, but modeprobing vboxvideo seems to work fine.

sudo modprobe -a vboxvideo vboxguest vboxsf
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxguest': No such device
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device

Additional info:

$ lsmod | grep vbox                                                 
vboxvideo               1933  0 
drm                   231296  6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau,vboxvideo
vboxpci                14581  0 
vboxnetflt             17612  0 
vboxnetadp             18323  0 
vboxdrv              1823456  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
$ pacman -Qs virtualbox | grep local
local/libvirt 1.1.1-1
local/phpvirtualbox 4.2_6-1
local/virtualbox 4.2.16-1
local/virtualbox-guest-iso 4.2.16-1
local/virtualbox-guest-modules 4.2.16-5
local/virtualbox-guest-utils 4.2.16-1
local/virtualbox-host-modules 4.2.16-5
$ uname -a
Linux manitou 3.10.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 26 11:26:59 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

falconindy

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Re: Cannot load modules vboxguest, vboxsf

Why do you have both the host and guest modules installed on the same machine? Hint: you should have only. I'm going to guess that you're attempting this on the host (aka the machine which runs virtualbox, not the virtual machine itself), which means that there's nothing wrong here.

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hagakure

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 2

Re: Cannot load modules vboxguest, vboxsf

You're right, I've mixed it up. Tnx.

Last edited by hagakure (2013-08-08 19:25:07)