VirtualBox vboxdrv module, not a problem, just a question

Well, ive installed Virtualbox, and ive got to modprove vboxdrv to get that module loaded so VirtualBox can run... Ive thought to put this on the rc.conf, so i dont need to modprove ir every time i boot and want to use vbox. But whats the drawback of having a module loaded always?, i mean, does it consumes resources as much as considering this? or i just add it to my rc.conf? I dont use vbox everyday, just isolated use... so for the moment modproving it everytime i need it doesnt hurt... , thnx!

xracer wrote:i mean, does it consumes resources as much as considering this?
Yes, it will consume resources, mainly RAM... It's up to you if that usage is worth savings by loading and unloading all the time. Personally, I just leave it loaded. One less thing to worry about.

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The iChat file transfer isn't handling large transfers too well. I'm looking for a way to transfer files over ip mac to mac. Such as an episode of a tv for example.

Hi The Void,
Have you Zipped it first ?
Have you thought of other methods ?
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[Solved]Virtualbox kernel module not loaded

I update my system today and when I try to run Virtualbox...
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.6.11-1-ARCH) or it failed to
load. Please reinstall the kernel module virtualbox-host-modules or
if you don't use our stock kernel compile the modules with
sudo dkms autoinstall
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
I already had this trouble before and this was the fix
# modprobe vboxdrv
But it doesn't work anymore
Any ideas?
Edit: This just get fixed by itself when restaring my PC. Sorry
Last edited by ilq (2013-02-13 02:32:43)

fsckd wrote:
rc.conf is part of the deprecated init system. icebox is not using systemd and neglected to mention that.
Amarildo, see the wiki.
Thanks, it really helped. It's solved.

Not a problem, just curious

Hey all... a few times now I have packed up the Apple TV and headed over to a buddy's place to watch some movies. Up until last night, didn't really put much thought into it, but last night it suddenly occurred to me...
I never set the ATV up to work on his network.
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Again, not a problem. Just curious.

According to your original post, you mention being out of range of your Airport network, thus I thought that you were using wireless.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by:
"according to the network settings I was actually connected to my home network, taking my IP address from the DHCP here, using the DNS here"
How could you tell? If both you and your friend left your routers' using the default 192.168.x.x IP address range (or picked the same IP address range), the network settings would be exactly the same at both places.
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Ok so ive been having problems with my computer and i had the computer out in the garage and dad said he wanted to try the 120v converter he had in his truck to see if it would power my computer and monitor so we hooked it up.. ran perfect
it is a very nice system, he wanted to try it out so we would know if i could play whatever during the trip to California now think about it..
Im running 7 hard drives the Athlon 64 3200+ the MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R, 1Gb of Corsair XMS pc3200, Radeon 9800XT. 1 DVD-rom 1DVD-+RW
we figured out that im only using 185 or so Watts, we could easily run 3 computers while on the trip, btw not taking a truck. taking a camper/ motor home

this isnt one of those cheap walmart brands this is a heavy duty converter
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Virtualbox doesn't compiles "vboxdrv" module for 2.6.24 kernel

I installed Virtualbox, however I cannot launch any OS because the vboxdrv module doesn't exists for the latest kernel (I found another module for the 2.6.23 kernel); so the GUI says that I should execute this:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
However that file doesn't exists. I already tried to uninstall virtualbox and reinstalling from pacman, but still no luck.
What should I do? Is this a bug?
Thanks in advance.

I think that's where the confusion is. When I got the package from AUR it had:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralvez users 217 2008-01-08 15:58 interfaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralvez users 3596 2008-01-20 11:38 PKGBUILD
-rwx------ 1 ralvez users 174 2007-12-30 04:23 vbox_build_module
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralvez users 2384 2007-12-30 07:39 vbox.install
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralvez users 2179 2007-12-30 07:31 vboxnet.patch
So the patch file is there (in bold text) ... and is not executable is a text file. That's why I'm asking if I have to do something with it to make the whole thing work.
Since it is just a plain text file if I try to use it as an upgrade patch it fails with error:
loading package data... error: error while reading package vboxnet.patch: Unrecognized archive format: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
error: failed to add target 'vboxnet.patch'
So, I'm stuck. I see no way to solve the problem.
R.
Edit: On re-reading your post I wonder what package from core are you referring to? I was under the impression that when we use AUR we are "fetching" files not from core but form the AUR source.
Am I wrong?
Last edited by ralvez (2008-02-13 22:50:31)

Virtualbox vboxdrv problem

Hello,
I didn't use Virtualbox for quite some time and when I try to start a VM I got the :
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Ubuntu.
Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-eth0' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
One of the kernel modules was not successfully loaded. Make sure that no kernel modules from an older version of VirtualBox exist. Then try to recompile and reload the kernel modules by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Well since the kernel version changed to 3.X I did a vboxbuild to rebuild the kernel module. Then I reload the module with a modprobe vboxdrv. But I still have the same error ( even after rebooting ).
My problem is that I have no vboxdrv in /etc/rc.d therefore I can't do the vboxdrv setup as asked. Even after reinstalling Virtualbox with pacman still no vboxdrv in sight. Anyone knows why ?
Thanks in advance,
Nolhian

Thanks this works
Just read the wiki page again and saw "vboxdrv and vboxnetflt should be in the MODULES=() section of your /etc/rc.conf ", missed it earlier. Is this new ? Worked fine a few months ago just with the vboxdrv module alone. Should i add vboxnetadp too ?
Last edited by Nolhian (2011-10-31 21:55:03)

Cant find virtualbox vboxdrv (install vbox modules on custom kernel)

hi guys!
i recently installed virtualbox-ose using pacman -Sy virtualbox. it installed fine and i was able to create a vm. when i start my vm i get this error:
VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
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i could not find /etc/init.d/vboxdrv. when i do for a search for vboxdrv, it shows me a vobxdrv.ko and its located on my original arch kernel 2.6.25-ARCH. im using a custom kernel. how do i tell virtualbox to build the modules in my custom kernel and not on the arch kernel. i remember i had the same problem with ndiswrapper before that ndis wrapper built the ndiswrapper module on my arch kernel instead of my custom kernel. any ideas?
thanks!

hi DonVla!
i dont have /usr/bin/vbox_build_module...
<<archbox>> :ls /usr/bin/v*
/usr/bin/vboxbfe /usr/bin/verve-focus /usr/bin/vlc
/usr/bin/vboxmanage /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vlc-config
/usr/bin/vboxsdl /usr/bin/vidiff /usr/bin/vmstat
/usr/bin/vboxsvc /usr/bin/view /usr/bin/volname
/usr/bin/vboxxpcomipcd /usr/bin/viewres /usr/bin/vorbiscomment
/usr/bin/vditool /usr/bin/vino-preferences /usr/bin/vstp
/usr/bin/vercmp /usr/bin/virtualbox /usr/bin/vte
/usr/bin/verify_krb5_conf /usr/bin/vitutor
<<archbox>>:updatedb
<<archbox>> :locate vbox
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/opt/qt/include/qvbox.h
/opt/qt/man/man3/qvbox.3qt.gz
/opt/qt/man/man3/qvboxlayout.3qt.gz
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/usr/bin/vboxmanage
/usr/bin/vboxsdl
/usr/bin/vboxsvc
/usr/bin/vboxxpcomipcd
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/usr/include/Qt/q3vbox.h
/usr/include/Qt3Support/q3vbox.h
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[SOLVED] Virtualbox-host-dkms module not compatible with Linux 3.17rc

Using the linux-mainline package from aur, was unable to get dkms to compile the vboxdrv module. Mainline is currently at around 3.17rc3, didn't work at rc1 either.
Apparently a patch has already been made, it is available at:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic … 50#p296650
Loaded the abs system and applied the patch from the forum:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/download/ … p?id=13399
Patch works like a charm. I have compiled the package, if anyone else would like to save some cpu cycles and time, I wouldn't mind uploading it if there is somewhere it can be posted.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134580

Rebuild the vboxdrv Module Problem [SOLVED]

I'm running Arch 64bit and recently updated to kernel 2.6.33.2-1
Running the usual vbox module update results in the following error.
[root@Arch2009p2 jeff]# vbox_build_module
Building vboxdrv for Linux 2.6.33-ARCH
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/generic r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \
do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxdrv* .tmp_ver* vboxdrv.* Module.symvers Modules.symvers modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \
do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxnetflt* .tmp_ver* vboxnetflt.* Modules.symvers modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \
do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxnetadp* .tmp_ver* vboxnetadp.* Modules.symvers modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
rm -f vboxdrv.ko vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko
*** Building 'vboxdrv' module ***
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
make KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv SRCROOT=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ARCH'
CC [M] /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
In file included from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/VBox/types.h:34,
from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39,
from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37:
/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/iprt/types.h:100:30: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ARCH'
make[1]: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Last edited by jeff story (2010-04-18 23:18:00)

Thanks wonder, that did it.
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