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jaine

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Registered: 2017-06-10

Posts: 4

Cant load Kernel Modules for Virtualbox-guest

Modules suppose to load automatically at boot up but dont as you can tell. vboxguest and vboxsf arent found.

!$ systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service
  ● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules                           
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)                                                      
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-09-25 14:02:23 PDT; 44min ago                                                                             
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)                                 
           man:modules-load.d(5)       
  Process: 220 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)                                                                 
 Main PID: 220 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)                                 

Sep 25 14:02:22 jaine systemd-modules-load[220]: Failed to insert 'vboxguest': No such device                                                                  
Sep 25 14:02:22 jaine systemd-modules-load[220]: Failed to insert 'vboxsf': No such device                                                                     
Sep 25 14:02:23 jaine systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE                                             
Sep 25 14:02:23 jaine systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.         
Sep 25 14:02:23 jaine systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.                                                                     
Sep 25 14:02:23 jaine systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.                                                                
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

located modules in /lib/modules/extramodules-4.12-ARCH so ran depmod command

$ sudo depmod extramodules-4.12-ARCH                                                                                                               
depmod: ERROR: Bad version passed extramodules-4.12-ARCH 

help is much appreciated.

Slithery

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Re: Cant load Kernel Modules for Virtualbox-guest

Which kernel package and virtualbox-guest package do you have installed?

Last edited by Slithery (2017-09-25 21:58:21)

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jaine

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Registered: 2017-06-10

Posts: 4

Re: Cant load Kernel Modules for Virtualbox-guest

kernel package.

 $ dmesg | grep Linux                                                                                                                          [14:54:27] 
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.12.13-1-ARCH (builduser@foutrelis) (gcc version 7.2.0 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 15 06:36:43 UTC 2017                       
[    2.233346] Linux agpgart interface v0.103                                  
[    6.653869] VBoxPciLinuxInit

$ paclocs virtualbox-guest                                                                                                                    [14:58:44]
local/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch 5.1.28-1
    Virtualbox guest kernel modules for Arch Kernel
local/virtualbox-guest-utils 5.1.28-1
    VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities

hopefully thats the info you want.

Last edited by jaine (2017-09-25 22:03:22)

jaine

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Registered: 2017-06-10

Posts: 4

Re: Cant load Kernel Modules for Virtualbox-guest

solved. the guest stuff was for windows. i didnt need those modules for arch since arch is the host.

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

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Re: Cant load Kernel Modules for Virtualbox-guest

Make sure you remember to mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and prepending [SOLVED] to the title.