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lqs

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Registered: 2012-07-25

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Module vbox* not found; Virtualbox; additions [RESOLVED]

I'm running arch in virtualbox.
And first, I installed virtualbox-archlinux-additions from repository by pacman and everything worked fine, except a little problem.
So I thought (altough it's not recommended) installing virtualbox guest additions from virtualbox (host).
ERROR:

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

I tried pacman -S {linux linux-lts and xorg-*; mesa and virtualbox-archlinux-additions}, then modprobe vboxsf vboxguest vboxvideo, still the Not Found error.

Last edited by lqs (2012-07-27 08:03:18)

ewaller

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Re: Module vbox* not found; Virtualbox; additions [RESOLVED]

It is getting late here, so maybe it is just me... but I cannot figure out what you are trying to do.

Is the Archlinux you are working with in a virtual machine?  If so, you want to install virtualbox-archlinux-modules.

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lqs

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Registered: 2012-07-25

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Re: Module vbox* not found; Virtualbox; additions [RESOLVED]

It's 1 pm in China
Thanks!Your way works.

It is getting late here, so maybe it is just me... but I cannot figure out what you are trying to do.

Is the Archlinux you are working with in a virtual machine?  If so, you want to install virtualbox-archlinux-modules.

DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: Module vbox* not found; Virtualbox; additions [RESOLVED]

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

Add them to rc.conf and reboot the VM.

And don't forget to mark the topic as solved (by editing the first post).

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