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Spazasaurus

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Registered: 2013-06-11

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Install virtualbox-guest-utils from wiki but can't do the modprobe

I'm doing a install in virtualbox of archlinux and am following the instructions on the wiki for installing guest additions (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … _Additions).

I do the pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils and don't seem to get any errors.

I go to do the step:
modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo
and get the following error:
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxguest not found.
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxsf not found.
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxvideo not found.

What'd I miss? Obviously I've done something wrong.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Install virtualbox-guest-utils from wiki but can't do the modprobe

Did you reboot after upgrading your kernel?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: Install virtualbox-guest-utils from wiki but can't do the modprobe

Nope, you haven't done anything wrong. The maintainer needs to update the modules package.

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-06-11 16:38:01)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Install virtualbox-guest-utils from wiki but can't do the modprobe

Is it https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35759 ?

Edit: There already is a thread about https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1285923

Last edited by karol (2013-06-11 16:51:41)