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Matsuda Hirokawa

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Registered: 2021-01-25

Posts: 1

Unable to install module vboxhost/6.1.18_OSE for kernel 5.4.92-1-lts

Hi. I'm trying to install VirtualBox on my machine by following the VirtualBox topic in the ArchWiki, and when i install the linux-lts-headers it installs without problems, but it displays the following error message at the end of the installation: ==> Unable to install module vboxhost/6.1.18_OSE for kernel 5.4.92-1-lts: Missing kernel modules tree. Is it something i need to care about? Thanks in advance.

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,687

Re: Unable to install module vboxhost/6.1.18_OSE for kernel 5.4.92-1-lts

Is virtualbox-host-dkms installed? Have you enabled the service?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Unable to install module vboxhost/6.1.18_OSE for kernel 5.4.92-1-lts

You installed the headers for a kernel you don't have installed?

quaziashfaq

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Registered: 2019-05-20

Posts: 1

Re: Unable to install module vboxhost/6.1.18_OSE for kernel 5.4.92-1-lts

Thanks @Scimmia. You pointed it out correctly.

I was installing the wrong host-modules when I selected default option (virtualbox-host-dkms). But my kernel is linux (not lnux-lts).
So I should have selected the other one (virtualbox-host-modules-arch)