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shining_grin

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From: a little town near Milan

Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 23

Problems with virtualbox 4.2.0

Hi all,
I write this post to signal a problem with the latest version of virtualbox, 4.2.0
I upgraded, rebuilt modules using dkms, but my VM wasn't starting, after a bit of googling I understood that also the extension pack was to be upgraded.
I installed the virtualbox-ext-oracle and it seems that the VM was working but I couldn't click inside the vm window, neither the host keybinding was working, thus I could not interact with the vm.
I solved rolling back to virtualbox 4.1.22 and rebuilding the modules (and reinstalling the extension).

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Problems with virtualbox 4.2.0

Did you remember to reboot after a kernel update?

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shining_grin

Member

From: a little town near Milan

Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 23

Re: Problems with virtualbox 4.2.0

Yep, it was after a fresh boot

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Problems with virtualbox 4.2.0

It probably has to do with all the renaming that's been going on lately.

virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-guest-additions -> virtualbox-guest-utils

As long as you follow these instructions (and not the legacy way, from the MODULES section of rc.conf), and you're in the vboxusers group, you should be fine.

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