Bug 4274

Summary:	Virtualbox guest additions module (vboxguest) fails to load
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Curtis Hildebrand <curtis_mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dkms-vboxadditions-4.1.8-3.mga2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Curtis Hildebrand 2012-01-25 09:12:45 CET

The dkms Virtualbox guest additions module fails to load.  This is on a clean Cauldron install post alpha3

]# modprobe -vv vboxguest
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.1-desktop-2.mga2/dkms/3rdparty/vbox/vboxguest.ko.gz 
FATAL: Error inserting vboxguest (/lib/modules/3.2.1-desktop-2.mga2/dkms/3rdparty/vbox/vboxguest.ko.gz): No such device

/var/log/messages:
Jan 24 23:29:28 localhost kernel: vboxguest: VirtualBox Guest PCI device not found.


]# lsmod |grep box
vboxnetadp             13382  0 
vboxnetflt             23441  0 
vboxdrv               282739  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

]# dmesg | grep -i box
vboxguest: VirtualBox Guest PCI device not found.
vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores.
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x219 offMax=0x22029
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.1.8_OSE (interface 0x00190000).
vboxguest: VirtualBox Guest PCI device not found.

]# dkms status -m vboxadditions
vboxadditions, 4.1.8-3.mga2, 3.2.1-desktop-2.mga2, x86_64: installed 
vboxadditions, 4.1.8-3.mga2, 3.2.0-desktop-1.mga2, x86_64: installed

]# modprobe -l |grep vbox |sort
dkms/3rdparty/vbox/vboxguest.ko.gz
dkms/3rdparty/vbox/vboxsf.ko.gz
dkms/3rdparty/vbox/vboxvideo.ko.gz
dkms-binary/3rdparty/vbox/vboxdrv.ko.gz
dkms-binary/3rdparty/vbox/vboxnetadp.ko.gz
dkms-binary/3rdparty/vbox/vboxnetflt.ko.gz

VirtualBox rpms installed on my system:
dkms-vboxadditions-4.1.8-3.mga2
dkms-virtualbox-4.1.8-3.mga2
virtualbox-4.1.8-3.mga2
virtualbox-doc-4.1.8-3.mga2
virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.8-3.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-3.2.1-desktop-1.mga2-4.1.8-6.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-3.2.1-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.8-7.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-desktop-3.2.0-1.mga2-4.1.8-4.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-4.1.8-7.mga2
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-4.1.8-3.mga2

Comment 1 Curtis Hildebrand 2012-01-25 09:19:18 CET

Nevermind.... vboxadditions are for the guest and I'm trying to install it on the host...

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID