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Old 02-19-2009, 04:12 PM   #1
Jonha
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vurtualbox guest additions


Hi

I am trying to set up virtualbox guest additions but there is a problem. I am using gentoo and I emerged the required packages and I received further instructions to add virtualbox-guest-additions to my default run level which I did. However, the initscript does not run successfully.

As seen with:
# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start
(green star) * Starting VirtualBox guest additions ...
(green star) * Loading kernel modules and creating devices
(green star) * Starting the time syncronization system service
(red star) * Failed to start VirtualBox guest additions

What confuses me is the script did not raise an error after it said, "* Loading kernel modules and creating devices." Does that mean that the modules were loaded? Because when I 'lsmod | grep vbox', it shows that the vboxadd and vboxvfs modules were not loaded. Which makes me believe that maybe my problem is then similar to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237618 but I don't unstand how the guy fixed his problem.

Please help!
 
Old 02-21-2009, 05:49 PM   #2
dannyk1
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A while back I tried to install virtual box on gentoo and had all sorts of problems getting the modules to load (even on several machines).
I eventually dropped it for a while until a new kernel upgrade came out then tried again. after that, no trouble, it just worked fine.

The only trouble I had was at first I installed "app-emulation/virtualbox-ose" until I found out there is no usb support with that.
So I un-installed it and went for "app-emulation/virtualbox-bin". Now it works fine. (Although I still have trouble with usb drivers in a XP virtual machine).
 
  


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