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08-20-2014, 06:17 PM
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
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Slackware guest system in VirtualBox: libGL error
Hi,
I'm running Slackware 14.1 as a guest system in VirtualBox 4.3.14 running on an Elementary OS 0.2 host. I did quite some fine-tuning, but I wonder if I haven't forgotten something. When I'm starting a minimal graphical session (WindowMaker), I make a test with 'glxinfo | grep -i render', which displays the line "direct rendering: Yes", but also a couple of LibGL error lines: "failed to load driver vboxvideo".
Did I miss something here? See attachment to get a better idea.
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08-20-2014, 06:22 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Slackware, Slarm64 & Android
Posts: 17,014
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It looks like one of the virtualbox kernel modules can't find libGL.so. Maybe you have a 32 bit version but no 64 bit (or vice versa)
Last edited by business_kid; 08-21-2014 at 03:39 AM.
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08-20-2014, 06:27 PM
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by business_kid
It looks like one of the virtualbox kernel modules can't find linGL.so. Maybe you have a 32 bit version but no 64 bit (or vice versa)
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The host system is 64 bit, the guest is 32 bit.
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08-20-2014, 06:36 PM
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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Hmmmm. Looks like this is a bug in VirtualBox. Annoying showstopper.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12746
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08-20-2014, 06:42 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Oakland,Ca
Distribution: wins7, Debian wheezy
Posts: 6,841
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You're missing something like dkms or headers kernenel-dev, because it didn't build the module.
Try re-installing guest additions & post error.
Also did you run the tests from the link?
Last edited by EDDY1; 08-20-2014 at 06:44 PM.
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08-20-2014, 06:44 PM
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EDDY1
You're missing something like dkms or headers kernenel-dev, because it didn't build the module.
Try re-installing guest additions & post error.
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No, the module has been built OK, and lsmod even shows it's loaded. That's why I'm puzzled.
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08-21-2014, 03:08 AM
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MLED Founder
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Montpezat (South France)
Distribution: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Posts: 3,453
Original Poster
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OK, I found the culprit. Apparently, it's a bug affecting VirtualBox 4.3.x, reported on version 4.3.8. As a workaround, I've downgraded VirtualBox to the 4.2.x branch, version 4.2.26. Everything works perfectly now.
Side note: downgrading VirtualBox is a major PITA.
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