I see there's a virtualbox-modules package, but that's for the mainline (3.2 series) kernel. I don't see a similar package for the LTS (3.0 series) kernel. Does one exist somewhere that I'm missing it? If not, how does one use virtualbox on Arch with the LTS kernel? Do we need to build the kernel module from source by hand?
Thanks,
DR
Hey,
You can install them from source, but there are existing tools to do so. Install the virtualbox-source package, then run "vboxbuild" as root to build the modules. They can then be loaded with "modprobe vboxdrv"
Thanks, Jarek Sedlacek
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:19 PM, David Rosenstrauch darose@darose.netwrote:
I see there's a virtualbox-modules package, but that's for the mainline (3.2 series) kernel. I don't see a similar package for the LTS (3.0 series) kernel. Does one exist somewhere that I'm missing it? If not, how does one use virtualbox on Arch with the LTS kernel? Do we need to build the kernel module from source by hand?
Thanks,
DR
You could ask the package maintainer of he would be willing to maintain a virtualbox-modules-lts package.
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 23:23 -0500, Conner Lee wrote:
You could ask the package maintainer of he would be willing to maintain a virtualbox-modules-lts package.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=archlinux+virtualbox
The first hit is the Wiki, it works without any disagreeableness: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Hosts_running_a_custom_kerne...
It's not complicated, it's not time consuming.
I use Virtualbox with the default kernel and a kernel-rt.
Hth, Ralf
Hi, I found this thread because I had the same problem. (Hope this would have been posted to a web based forum, now I had to register to nabble and archlinux.org mailing list. Not sure why use anymore old-school mailing lists, when there is https://bbs.archlinux.org/ and you can subscribe to topics. Just a n00b grumbling...)
So I tried to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Hosts_running_a_custom_kerne... as Ralph suggested. But I am a n00b. I tried the linux-lts kernel to solve my problem with Firefox being extremely unstable, and then could not kill -9 it (I still don't know whether it's related to the default arch linux kernel, or whether the virtualbox modules interfered). Anyway I installed the linux-lts and configured the /boot/grub/menu.lst for that, and it loaded successfully, and Firefox is now stable, but I missed the virtualbox integration (fullscreen, mousewheel, copy-paste bw. host and guest OS). I did 'pacman -S virtualbox-source', and 'vboxbuild', and I could successfully 'modprobe vboxdrv', and I could add it to /etc/rc.conf MODULES section, and I verified that it loaded successfully (lsmod | grep vbox). But it the above mentioned features did not work. I also checked the /usr/bin/vboxbuild script to find out that it only builds vboxdrv, vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt, vboxpci. I found the result in the dir /lib/modules/3.0.27-1-lts/extramodules. So what about vboxguest, vboxsf and vboxvideo modules, which were earlier installed by the virtualbox-archlinux-additions package (and I had to load them in /etc/rc.conf)? I even tried to remove and install that package again, but it does not help, I think it's just for the default Arch kernel of course. How can I compile and install these modules (vboxguest, vboxsf and vboxvideo) or how can I make the virtualbox integration work properly? I would really appreciate some help on this, thanks in advance. /Attila
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Hell, I just got enough of this and installed the virtualbox modules directly from the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, which is mounted by virtualbox when you say that it should install the guest additions. And now at least it works! Based on http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp5801200
# pacman -S dkms # pacman -R virtualbox-guest-additions -> otherwise the next command would complain # sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
[root@myhost cdrom]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.12 Guest Additions for Linux......... VirtualBox Guest Additions installer /etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /)' Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [DONE] Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules [DONE] Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [DONE] Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions [DONE] Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions [DONE] /etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /)' Installing the Window System drivers [BUSY] Installing X.Org Server 1.12 modules [DONE] Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions [DONE] You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components [DONE] [root@myhost cdrom]#
Not sure what's this with
/etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 573: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /)'
but everything seems to work now.
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