Error Inserting Vboxadd No Such Device
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Linux hosts. Post a reply 11 posts • Page 1 of 1 Reply with quote Starting vboxadd FAILED - Fedora 7 by nobody » 7. Jun 2007, vagrant /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: no such device 17:37 Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view/etc/init.d/vboxadd start
Starting VirtualBox Additions FATAL: module vboxsf not found Error inserting vboxadd (/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/misc/vboxadd.ko): No such device
modprobe: fatal: module vboxvfs not found. [FAILED]
Sorry for posting but i can't find solution of this problem modprobe: error: could not insert 'vboxsf': no such device on forum. Can somebody help me? Thanx nobody Posts: 7Joined: 7. Jun 2007, 16:58 Top Reply with quote by ManfredB » 7. Jun 2007, 19:37 Did you install kernel-headers and kernel-devel? Manfred ManfredB Volunteer Posts: 153Joined: 10. May 2007, 12:48 Top Reply with quote by nobody » 8. Jun 2007, 11:01 Yes this a have installed ... Code: Select all
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kernel-devel.i686 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 installed vboxdrv is ok, errors are only when i try run vboxadd and vboxvfs and selinux i have turned off. nobody Posts: 7Joined: 7. Jun 2007, 16:58 Top Reply with quote by nobody » 8. Jun 2007, 19:27 60 views of this thread and no solution ... so nobody know how to fix it? ... VirtualBox is better then qemu etc. and i want use it ... but ... nobody Posts: 7Joined: 7. Jun 2007, 16:58 Top Reply with quote by achimha » 8. Jun 2007, 20:35 Post dmesg output after trying to load the module. achimha Volunteer Posts: 217Joined: 10. May 2007, 09:24 Top Reply with quote by nobody » 9. Jun 2007, 10:57 starting vboxadd Code: Select all Expand viewCollapse view# /etc/init.d/vboxadd start
# dmesg | grep vbox
vboxadd: initializing. Version 0.5
vboxadd: VirtualBox PCI device not found.
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate NMI watchdog permanently...
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but it comoplains the Kernel Driver is missing. johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 05:51 AMwhat should i do? https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-981681.html randy78November 14th, 2008, 05:52 AMOpen a terminal and type: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297915 setup johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 05:55 AM* Usage: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv {start|stop|restart|status} johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 06:20 AMjohn@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start * Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv * No suitable module for running kernel found. SIGTERMerNovember 14th, 2008, 06:34 AMsudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-[kernel version]-generic replace no such [kernel version] with your current kernel version which is probably 2.6.24-21 johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 06:43 AM1st command resulted in: E: Regex compilation error - Unmatched [ or [^ not sure if it was finnished or what. and im not sure how to replace [kernel version]... ... sory 1st day, cant find my way no such device back home to windows (lack of pxe boot files), and still like learning an alternative. i've always dreaded the day they put windows online, i think thats whats up with 7. SIGTERMerNovember 14th, 2008, 06:48 AMdude without the brackets :) if your kernel is 2.6.24-21, then the command would be: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.24-21-generic johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 06:54 AMsorry im high copyn n pastin... you know Setting up virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.24-21-generic (24.0.6) ... FATAL: Error inserting vboxadd (/lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/misc/vboxadd.ko): No such device SIGTERMerNovember 14th, 2008, 07:02 AM- are you sure that you installed the correct version? (matches current kernel version) - are you sure apt-get finished its job through without errors? johnhoukNovember 14th, 2008, 07:10 AMits in my applications menu but not the installed only list of addremove. It does run and configure untill i start the vm. SIGTERMerNovember 14th, 2008, 07:15 AMi'm sorry, i should have been more clearer with my questions.. - are you sure tha
virtualbox-ose-modules broken AGAIN. Edit Remove 8 This bug affects 1 person Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Undecided Unassigned Edit Nominated for Intrepid by Steven Willis Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose 8.04 desktop running VirtualBox OSE 1.5.6, with Guest 8.10. With virtualbox-ose-guest-source the video drivers are not set by /usr/share/virtualbox/x11config.pl and if manually configured it reports not found screen due to mismatched versions. The mouse functions but is not seamless. The installed modules report the following error on startup: * Starting VirtualBox Additions... FATAL: Error inserting vboxadd (/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/updates/dkms/vboxadd.ko): No such device or address * cannot modprobe vboxadd kernel module [fail] Installing "Guest Additions" from the VirtualBox interface produces an error building the modules. View error log in attachment vboxadd-install.log See original description Add tags Tag help Steven McCoy (fnjordy) wrote on 2008-11-14: #1 vboxadd-install.log Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain) description: updated Marco Cimmino (cimmo) wrote on 2008-11-23: #2 I think is a dupe of #292856 There is a package with the video fix, however the x11config.pl still didn't set correctly xorg.conf that needs to be manually edited. https://launchpad.net/~blueyed/+archive Steven McCoy (fnjordy) wrote on 2008-11-24: #3 That fixes the video but not the vboxadd device for the mouse. virtualbox-ose-guest-source 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu2~blueyedppa8 virtualbox-ose-guest-utils 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu2~blueyedppa8 Steven Willis (onlynone) wrote on 2008-12-05: #4 I posted this over at bug 189444 (which dealt with package dependencies between virtualbox-ose-guest-utils and virtualbox-ose-guest-source) : ===== This is still a problem with 8.10. I have 8.04 installed on my desktop. I installed 8.10 within virtualbox. From within 8.10 I installed virtualbox-ose-guest-utils and it failed to start because it couldn't find vboxadd.ko . I then read several bug reports on launchpad and also installed the virtualbox-ose-guest-source and virtualbox-ose-sorce. Again it tried to modprobe vboxadd but failed. This time the error was: FATAL: Error insertin