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zanculmarktum

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Registered: 2016-09-25

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] vboxsf can't be started

I have Arch Linux running inside VirtualBox. After I install virtualbox-guest-modules-arch and virtualbox-guest-utils, every time I boot, the Kernel Modules took so long (approx. 4 minutes) to boot.
I need to uncomment vboxsf manually within /usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch.conf as follows:

vboxguest
vboxsf
vboxvideo

to:

vboxguest
#vboxsf
vboxvideo

The problem solved. But when I try to:

modprobe -a vboxsf

it took so long, just like the previous issue, and then it said that the vboxsf module has timed out without even started.
It also said:

[ 2160.472495] INFO: task modprobe:628 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 2160.472680]       Tainted: G           O    4.7.4-1-ARCH #1
[ 2160.472777] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

The version of virtualbox-guest-modules-arch, virtualbox-guest-utils and my VirtualBox (host) are 5.1.6.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad English.

Last edited by zanculmarktum (2016-09-26 09:16:59)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] vboxsf can't be started

Moving to Apps and DEs...

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Arch + dwm   •   Mercurial repos  •   Surfraw

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zanculmarktum

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Registered: 2016-09-25

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] vboxsf can't be started

OK, solved.
VirtualBox Guest Additions can only use LTS kernel.

puntaier_gtec

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Registered: 2016-09-28

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Re: [SOLVED] vboxsf can't be started

Thanks for this important hint about LTS. In summary:

    sudo pacman -S linux-lts-headers linux-lts
    grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
    reboot
    sudo pacman -S virtualbox-gueste-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils