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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

[solved] Some problems with virtualbox

hi everyone ,
after updating to the latest kernel this morning i first removed the virtualbox-modules package (which was conflicting with the kernel) and then rebuilt the vboxdrv module (modules are now built in; root: # vbox_build_module). the module builds and start without any errors. so far so good ...

module is built and running: afterwards i tried to add the user to the vboxusers group, which totally failed ... "group was not found" arrgh

i could give the user writing rights on /dev/vboxdrv, but i'm not sure if this is really clever~

best regards,
arch0r

Last edited by arch0r (2008-08-12 06:43:15)

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: [solved] Some problems with virtualbox

ok, several reinstalls of vbox fixed the problem :lol:

cserge

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] Some problems with virtualbox

Hi

When you say you rebuild the vboxdrv module [with vbox_build_module], how did you do it?
I have no vbox_build_module. Where can i get it? [which package?]

Thanks

Serge

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: [solved] Some problems with virtualbox

hi, package was virtualbox_bin from the french repo. it's the closed source version of virtualbox

add to your /etc/pacman.conf following repo:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686/

pacman -Sy virtualbox_bin

*after downloading the package, the already built module can be loaded with modprobe vboxdrv (add it to the modules queue in rc.conf)
*if not, build the module manually: vbox_build module
*add ur user to the vbox group: gpasswd -a user vboxusers

logout/login/reboot and run virtualbox afterwards :>

Last edited by arch0r (2008-08-12 18:37:44)

cserge

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] Some problems with virtualbox

Thank you very much, archOr