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juliendz

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Registered: 2013-05-13

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

HI,

I've have followed these instrctions to install the virtualbox guest modules for arch linux.'
I have installed the virtualbox-guest-utils package

But when i run:

# modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

I get the following error:

modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxguest not found.
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxsf not found.
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxvideo not found.

The /lib/modules directory structure looks like this:

|-->3.14.4-1-ARCH
|-->extramodules-3.14.-ARCH
     |----> vboxguest.ko.gz vboxsf.ko.gz vboxvideo.ko.gz version

Why aren't the guest modules loading ?

Last edited by juliendz (2014-05-24 14:45:26)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,544

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

run `depmod 3.14.4-1-ARCH`

Edit: extramodules-3.14.-ARCH - is that directory a typo or is that where the modules actually are? That extra period after 3.14 might be what's causing a problem.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-05-24 14:18:58)

Qvazar

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Registered: 2014-05-24

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

I have the exact same problem.

`depmod 3.14.4-1-ARCH` outputs nothing.

My vbox* modules are in the /lib/modules/extramodules-3.14-ARCH/ directory (no extra period).

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

you ran that as root? There is a bug report where the submitter was able to load modules fine after running depmod.

juliendz

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Registered: 2013-05-13

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

run `depmod 3.14.4-1-ARCH`

Edit: extramodules-3.14.-ARCH - is that directory a typo or is that where the modules actually are? That extra period after 3.14 might be what's causing a problem.

The depmod command solved it and the modprobe after worked.

Thank you very much.

3.14.-ARCH was a typo, sorry about that .

Last edited by juliendz (2014-05-24 14:45:56)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

OK, I just elevated the severity of the bug report. Anyone interested can follow it here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40495

Qvazar

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Registered: 2014-05-24

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox: modprobe can't find vboxguest, vboxsf, vboxvideo

you ran that as root? There is a bug report where the submitter was able to load modules fine after running depmod.

Ah, that fixed it, thanks!!