Bug 26868

Summary:	Vbox installs fine but won't launch client
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, ftg, ouaurelien
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Vbox installed packages list Vbox M7 installed packages list

Description William Kenney 2020-06-28 02:49:46 CEST

Description of problem:

On real UEFI hardware. Secure boot disabled in BIOs.

Virtualbox installs without an error but then complains about unloaded, wrong setup or unsigned kernal driver

Installed packages list is attached.

--- Error message ----

Error in sublibOslnit

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing

'/sbin/vboxconfig'

as root.

If your system has EFI Secure Boot enabled you may also need to sign the kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

--- also another error message ---

virtualBox - Error

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine M8 x86_64 Plasma Live-DVD.


--- end error message ---


[root@localhost wilcal]# kernel-desktop-latest
bash: kernel-desktop-latest: command not found
[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi virtualbox-guest-additions
Package virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.10-2.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest
Package virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-6.1.10-13.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi x11-driver-video-vboxvideo
Package x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-1.0.0-6.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi kernel-desktop-devel-latest
Package kernel-desktop-devel-latest-5.7.5-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed
[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi cpupower
Package cpupower-5.7.5-1.mga8.x86_64 is already installed

Comment 1 William Kenney 2020-06-28 02:51:53 CEST

Created attachment 11724 [details]
Vbox installed packages list

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2020-06-28 15:57:46 CEST

I've found that installing VBox does not enable or start it.  Try doing that with systemctl enable/start.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 3 William Kenney 2020-06-28 16:44:16 CEST

(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #2)
> I've found that installing VBox does not enable or start it.  Try doing that
> with systemctl enable/start.

Thanks for looking at this. I will continue to gather info on this in the next days.

Let me clarify. The error messages are displayed when you attempt to launch an already set up client. In this case the M8 x86_64 Plasma Live-DVD. Installing, launching Vbox from a desktop icon and the setup of a client all worked just fine.

Also I want to note that my two primary computers are both Intel I5, running M7 and use a UEFI boot. Vbox runs just fine on those platforms. The test platform here is a very new Dell Laptop, I5 also with a UEFI boot.

Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2020-06-28 19:39:25 CEST

Virtualbox still uses rc.d scripts, so the systemd services are generated at
boot time.

On my system ...
# chkconfig --list 2>/dev/null|grep virtualbox
virtualbox      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

What's the result on that system?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 5 William Kenney 2020-06-28 22:08:16 CEST

(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #4)
> On my system ...
> # chkconfig --list 2>/dev/null|grep virtualbox
> virtualbox      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> 
> What's the result on that system?

[root@localhost wilcal]# chkconfig --list 2>/dev/null|grep virtualbox
virtualbox      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off

Comment 6 William Kenney 2020-06-29 20:46:27 CEST

Just to make sure I spun up an M7 Plasma install on the same platform
and installed Vbox to it. And sure enough it installed cleanly then
created and booted to a working desktop a client M8 x86_64 Plasam Live-DVD
So to my relief it does not appear to be this new Dell laptop
I've attached the installed list_m7_installed_packages_list.txt

Comment 7 William Kenney 2020-06-29 20:47:44 CEST

Created attachment 11725 [details]
Vbox M7 installed packages list

Comment 8 William Kenney 2020-06-29 22:13:43 CEST

Hold the phone
Unconfirmed for now.
Still work'n on it

Ever confirmed: 1 => 0
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED

Aurelien Oudelet 2020-09-02 17:48:59 CEST

CC: (none) => ouaurelien

Comment 9 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-09-23 00:59:49 CEST

Virtualbox runs fine on M8 Cauldron since last update.
I always restart host system before really using VBOX.

M7 client is OK.
On M7, Virtualbox is OK too on x86_64

Closing this.
Feel free to reopen if such bug occurs again.

Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED