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CheesecakeCharlie

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 13

VBoxClient Error

Hi

I'm trying to get VirtualBox installed and the virtualbox guest additions and i'm getting the following error on boot

vboxclient the virtualbox kernel service is not running. exiting

I have installed virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules virtualbox-guest-modules virtualbox-guest-iso

created user in vboxusers and have the vboxservice enabled

I am running arch with gnome-shell and arch is the host

I have this in modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf

vboxdrv
vboxnetadp
vboxnetflt
vboxpci

vboxguest
vboxsf
vboxvideo

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: VBoxClient Error

I have installed virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules virtualbox-guest-modules

Why both?  Is archlinux the host or the guest?

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CheesecakeCharlie

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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Re: VBoxClient Error

I have installed virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules virtualbox-guest-modules

Why both?  Is archlinux the host or the guest?

Arch is the host

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: VBoxClient Error

Then remove the guest packages.

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CheesecakeCharlie

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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Re: VBoxClient Error

Then remove the guest packages.

I have removed everything and just reinstalled virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules virtualbox-guest-iso

rebooted and still getting the vboxclient the virtualbox kernel service is not running. exiting on reboot

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,592

Re: VBoxClient Error

Might this be the cause?

[EDIT]
No, actually I'm sorry - there does not seem to be any relation - also, you have enabled a service.

[EDIT2]
OK, still, what is the output of this?

lsmod | grep vbox

Last edited by ayekat (2015-08-11 10:13:53)

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CheesecakeCharlie

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 13

Re: VBoxClient Error

Might this be the cause?

[EDIT]
No, actually I'm sorry - there does not seem to be any relation - also, you have enabled a service.

[EDIT2]
OK, still, what is the output of this?

lsmod | grep vbox

output of lsmod is

lsmod | grep vbox
vboxpci                24576  0
vboxnetflt             28672  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxdrv               385024  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci

cmtonkinson

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 18

Re: VBoxClient Error

@CheesecakeCharlie

I resolved this by removing everything virtualbox*guest*, including: virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-iso

Basically `pacman -Rcns` everything from `pacman | grep virtualbox | grep guest` did the trick