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tracuboTL

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 55

virtualbox: guest addition doesn't work

hi all!
i've installed virtualbox (not the one in aur, the other one) and i've problems with the guest additions:

what i do:
# pacman -S virtualbox                    <-- OK
# gpasswd -a medeo vboxusers      <-- OK
# rc.d setup vboxdrv                         <-- OK
# modprobe vboxdrv                         <-- OK

# pacman -Syu virtualbox-guest-additions         <--- OK
# modprobe vboxguest                     <--- ERROR!
FATAL: Error inserting vboxguest (/lib/modules/2.6.39-ARCH/misc/vboxguest.ko): No such device

so the problem is that i can't access at shared folder

any help?
Nico

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: virtualbox: guest addition doesn't work

virtualbox-guest-additions is for guest arch system not for host.

pacman -S virtualbox-additions

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: virtualbox: guest addition doesn't work

this brings me back to a thread I had started a while back where I too was confused about the naming. I'll see if I can find that thread.

wonder, would it be possible to change the names of those packages?

EDIT : Here's the thread I was referring to : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115777

Last edited by Inxsible (2011-06-15 17:51:04)

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