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thund3rpantz

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 32

Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

Hi!

After a fresh installation of virtualbox, and virtualbox-guest-iso i am not able to mount an .iso with the guest.

I get the following error:

Failed to open the optical disk file /home/thund3rpantz/archlinux-2014.01.05-dual.iso.

The medium '/home/thund3rpantz/archlinux-2014.01.05-dual.iso' can't be used as the requested device type.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Medium
Interface: IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac}
Callee: IVirtualBox {fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) 

Not shure where to go from here. I'm thankful for all help I can get.

Last edited by thund3rpantz (2014-01-22 16:14:50)

thund3rpantz

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 32

Re: Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

I rechecked that my user is in the vboxusers group with

$ groups thund3rpantz

/etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf makes these kernel modules load:
vboxdrv
vboxnetadp
vboxnetflt
vboxpci

$ pacman -Q virtualbox-guest-iso
virtualbox-guest-iso 4.3.6-1

$ pacman -Q virtualbox
virtualbox 4.3.6-3

Does the version numbers need to be equal? Any kernel modules I am missing?

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

You need virtualbox-host-modules as well. Then modprobe vboxdrv.

thund3rpantz

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 32

Re: Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

Thanks, had it installed. Reinstalled and modprobed, Still no luck.

virtualbox-host-modules-4.3.6-4

x33a

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Re: Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

Just to be sure, verify that the iso is not corrupt.

thund3rpantz

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 32

Re: Running .iso in virtualbox [SOLVED]

$ md5sum .iso
and check with the mirrors own sum.

I feel stupid now. It was corrupted.

Thank you so much for helping insight!