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jzhu

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Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 35

virtualbox host dkms can't be installed correctly

Here is my system that may be related:

1. lts kernal: 5.15.84-1-lts; and so its lts headers
2. boot is on its own partition
3. virtual-host-dkms: 7.0.4-1
4. this is straight pacman installation; not from upgrade. of course, masked virtual-host-dkms.conf to /dev/null; pacman shows no error for the dkms package installation
5. pacman installed virtualbox-guest-iso as well

when pacman installs the AUR virtualbox-ext-oracle, it complains missing virtualbox 7.0.4. then I checked pacman log for virtualbox host dkms, found it only installed source of the package with makefile and the shell script, build_in_tmp. when running the shell, it does build binaries under /tmp/vbox.0. I also see shell argument --save-module-symvers, --use-module-symvers, and --module-source. so, the questions:

1. Is the virtual-host-dkms installed correctly?

lsmod | grep vboxdrv

shows:
  vboxdrv               581632  0

2. if it is supposed to self run shell script, what are the option values to be able used to copy to the correct location? or this doesn't matter?
3. or this is an conflict between packages?

many thanks for help.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: virtualbox host dkms can't be installed correctly

pacman -Q virtualbox

jzhu

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Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 35

Re: virtualbox host dkms can't be installed correctly

retuned nothing. But, note this is lts kernel so it uses dkms pacman. Also,

pacman -Ql virtualbox-host-dkms

find no binaries (see my first post)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: virtualbox host dkms can't be installed correctly

You're hung up on virtualbox-host-dkms, but that has nothing to do with your issue. You haven't actually installed virtualbox.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,653

Re: virtualbox host dkms can't be installed correctly

Aah: got you. missed the very first step here.

I think you hit 'report' rather than 'reply'

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