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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,135
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Originally Posted by Jeebizz
That fix though seems to only apply to a non prebuilt version so..... I have to rely on Oracle to apply it to their next release.
"non prebuilt"????
The packages are there for you or anyone to download and use. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
The most recent test build, VirtualBox-6.1.27-146314-Linux_amd64.run, is running perfectly here.
Go to the above link, right click on "Linux 64 bit" and then "save link as."
Ditto the extension pack.
Last edited by cwizardone; 08-19-2021 at 09:56 PM.
Thank you for this. I used it today to upgrade my VBox 5.0.40 (SBo) to VBox 6.1.26. Working great in 14.2 (64-bit). (To get it to compile, I did have to install opus and pam.)
I think it has been mention before, when using Guest Additions in Slackware64-current I get the following on every boot. This is not new, not sure when it started as I only recently started adding Guest Additions to one of my Virtual Machines. This is a full install and updated clean install of slackware64-current with xf86-video-vboxvideo removed. It more of an annoyance that a problem. Any one else see this?
Code:
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
vboxadd-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox Guest Addition service.
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
Posts: 1,011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeebizz
I'm going to wait for a stable / official release version though as I am not a tester.
Add
/sbin/modprobe vboxdrv
to
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local.
also mentioned somewhere above in this thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisretusn
I think it has been mention before, when using Guest Additions in Slackware64-current I get the following on every boot. This is not new, not sure when it started as I only recently started adding Guest Additions to one of my Virtual Machines. This is a full install and updated clean install of slackware64-current with xf86-video-vboxvideo removed. It more of an annoyance that a problem. Any one else see this?
Code:
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel
modules. This may take a while.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version>
VirtualBox Guest Additions: or
VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
the system is restarted
vboxadd-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox Guest Addition service.
Anybody knows what to do with this error happening when launching a vm?
I've tried multiple Virtualbox versions. In 14.2 the vm is working fine.
Quote:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine win764.
Code:
The virtual machine 'win764' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}
Distribution: Slackware64 {15.0,-current}, FreeBSD, stuff on QEMU
Posts: 457
Rep:
That's strange. What happened in my case was that I moved /opt itself to another partition and made a symlink. VB started working again when I put it back. The stuff in /usr/bin is the same as on your system.
What does "ls -lds /opt" look like?
Last edited by pghvlaans; 08-21-2021 at 01:10 AM.
Reason: For clarity
I don't know, however, if this is fixed in the newer version that I have or I am just lucky
I downloading and install the latest test Linux 6.1.x revision 146314, which should have a newer version of Guest Additions. It does version 6.1.27 r146237, still rebuild the kernel. So I download the 6.1.x revision 146191 Guest Additions and install it.
You must be lucky, because that version is doing it too.
Last edited by chrisretusn; 08-21-2021 at 11:26 AM.
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