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mcicak

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From: Novi Sad, Serbia

Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 22

Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

I'm running arch in virtualbox.

First, I installed virtualbox-archlinux-additions from repository and everything worked fine, except it didn't want to show fullscreen resolution (1920x1080) so I thought (altough it's not recommended) installing virtualbox guest additions. And I was wrong. Everything is blinking and slow

I tried reinstalling virtualbox-archlinux-additions but it didn't help. I also tried 'pacman -S linux' and then again VBox-archlinux-additions but that also didn't help.

Is there a cure to this problem. Now, when I try

modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

I get following message:
WARNING: Module vboxguest not found.
WARNING: Module vboxsf not found.
WARNING: Module vboxvideo not found.

Please help

Cluster_one

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Registered: 2012-06-23

Posts: 14

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … on_on_host
Follow it exactly, trust me, i just installed arch on VB and worked perfectly.

pacman -S virtualbox

then the modules

pacman -S virtualbox-modules

that should get you going.

Last edited by Cluster_one (2012-06-26 01:47:52)

wokko

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From: Vic AU

Registered: 2010-05-08

Posts: 38

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

Why Virtualbox got full hdd

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

If you updated the linux package (the Linux kernel) you need to reboot the VM, not suspend it. Always reboot after a kernel update. Then you can modprobe all you want. It's also recommended that you add them in rc.conf, on the MODULES line, instead of modprobing them (so that they start at boot): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … ns_package

Have fun.

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lqs

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Registered: 2012-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

I have the same problem as you, did you find the answer? maybe install vbox all over again?

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

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

^ You get something like this too?

http://i.imgur.com/6DBww.png

Like I said, reboot the VM.

And read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests

(in other words, install virtualbox-archlinux-additions in the guest OS and add "vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo" to the MODULES section from rc.conf and reboot the VM)

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lqs

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Registered: 2012-07-25

Posts: 14

Re: Arch on VirtualBox - Ugly after installing VBox ISO additions

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

^ You get something like this too?

http://i.imgur.com/6DBww.png

Like I said, reboot the VM.

And read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests

(in other words, install virtualbox-archlinux-additions in the guest OS and add "vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo" to the MODULES section from rc.conf and reboot the VM)

Man I just didi what you say, but problem still there.
"
[root@HOSTNAME="arch0715" albert]# modprobe vboxguest
FATAL: Module vboxguest not found.
[root@HOSTNAME="arch0715" albert]# history | tail

  171  pacman -S linux
  172  poweroff
  173  pacman -S virtualbox-archlinux-additions
  174  vi /etc/rc.conf
  175  reboot
  178  modprobe vboxguest
  179  history | tail

"