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Surveyor

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Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

I'm trying to install a guest ubuntu 17.10 artful (x86-64) (kernel 4.13.0-36 generic) on an Arch Linux host Kernel~4.15.4-1-ARCH x86_64... but no joy.

I type sudo systemctl start vboxservice
and I get the Subject Line (above). Enable is the same.
So I try to install virtualbox-guest-dkms and it says is already the newest version.
Same for virtualbox-guest-utils.
I even tried (in desperation) virtualbox-guest-dkms.... same thing.
So I'm guessing there is a slight version mismatch somewhere.

So what command to I use to dump ALL the possible version numbers of things that MIGHT require exact version matches?
That's my initial question.

(If I'm making some more obvious mistake, please tell me.)

Last edited by Surveyor (2018-02-25 16:32:05)

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

So your issue is with the Ubuntu guest? You'd have to ask the Ubuntu people.

Surveyor

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

You may be right Scimmia, but that isn't my question.
I repeat: "So what command to I use to dump ALL the possible version numbers of things that MIGHT require exact version matches?"

Meanwhile, I'll contact the ubuntu page(s).

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

That may be the question you're asking, but it's an XY Problem. Why are you messing with the guest utils on the host at all?

To answer the question, though, you don't. You update everything and the Devs/TUs take care of that.

Last edited by Scimmia (2018-02-25 17:04:52)

Surveyor

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

No you have me confused. I was not aware I was "messing with the guest utils on the host".
Each of the commands above was typed into the guest Ubuntu.
What am I missing?

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

So you're doing all of this in the guest, it has nothing at all to do with Arch. I don't know what your question is, then.

Surveyor

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

Ok, in that case please confirm something.
1) Virtualbox utilities never experience version mismatches WITHIN just a guest installation.
2) And they never experience version mismatches between a guest and a host.
3) They ONLY experience version mismatches WITHIN a host.
Are the above three statements generally correct?

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

I don't even know what mismatches you're talking about

Surveyor

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

I think you should have said that up front.
For example, I'm worried about version mismatches between virtualbox-ext-oraclt AND virtualbox-host-{ modules-arch | dkms | AND
virtualbox-guest-utils AND any others I haven't mentioned?
I've seen several places mentioning that version matching is especially critical in virtualbox.

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

I think it's pretty clear your issues and questions only relate to the Ubuntu guest.

V1del

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Re: Failed to start vboxservice.service: Unit vboxservic.service not found

The closest to an Arch related question I can see is answered by: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … tions_disc

For everything else, please ask these questions on the Ubuntu boards.