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hwallace

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Registered: 2021-08-30

Posts: 110

[SOLVED]VirtualBox guest:trouble installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

The GuestAdditions installer is failing with

 ERROR: failed to load symbols from /lib/modules/5.16.9-arch1-1/misc/vboxguest.ko.zst: Invalid argument

Host

:> pacman -Ss virtualbox | grep installed
core/linux 5.16.9.arch1-1 [installed]
core/linux-lts 5.15.23-2 [installed]
community/virtualbox 6.1.32-2 [installed]
community/virtualbox-guest-iso 6.1.32-1 [installed]
community/virtualbox-host-modules-arch 6.1.32-9 [installed]

Guest

5.16.9-arch1-1

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# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.32 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 6.1.32 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
depmod: ERROR: failed to load symbols from /lib/modules/5.16.9-arch1-1/misc/vboxguest.ko.zst: Invalid argument
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel 
modules.  This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions:   /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
depmod: ERROR: failed to load symbols from /lib/modules/5.16.9-arch1-1/misc/vboxguest.ko.zst: Invalid argument
modprobe vboxguest failed
The log file /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log may contain further information.

The log file has no more information

Last edited by hwallace (2022-02-17 18:50:19)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,292

Re: [SOLVED]VirtualBox guest:trouble installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

The kernel modules are already part of the kernels afaik, the userspace packages are in the "virtualbox-guest-utils" package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtua … _Additions

hwallace

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Registered: 2021-08-30

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLVED]VirtualBox guest:trouble installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

The kernel modules are already part of the kernels afaik, the userspace packages are in the "virtualbox-guest-utils" package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtua … _Additions

Ah yes. Thanks.
I'd been following that page and installed the guest utils but missed the part where it explains that replaces the GuestAdditions.