Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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Started 10 years ago by Sardtok
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Sardtok

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Hi, I can't get guest additions to work on the current cooking release.

I've done a clean install of from the current ISO and I'm mainly following the Slitaz 4.0 guide to installing guest additions, but I add a few more packages to get the install script to run correctly. Then I install the following packages:

linux-api-headers
linux-module-headers
bzip2
dkms
bash
slitaz-toolchain
linux-drm
linux-source
mesa-demos
rpm4

Then I run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root (without rpm4 I just get a lot of rpm related errors as the flags for BusyBox and standard rpm seem to be different). After installing I try to add the following modules to LOAD_MODULES in /etc/rcS.conf: vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

I add VBoxClient-all to the login_cmd in slim.conf: login_cmd VBoxClient-all & exec /bin/sh -l ~/.xinitrc %session

During boot, none of the modules added to rcS.conf load:
Loading module: vboxguestmodprobe: FATAL: Module vboxguest not found.
Loading module: vboxsfmodprobe: FATAL: Module vboxsf not found.
Loading module: vboxvideomodprobe: FATAL: Module vboxvideo not found.

The OS works in general, but I cannot use shared folders, which is kind of crucial to me as I use the OS as a sandbox for grading student code automatically.

I was upgrading from Slitaz 3, but I'm considering just going with Slitaz 4, if that's working better.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Posted 10 years ago #
gdesilva

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Did you check this out....?

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/installing-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-slitaz-40-target

Instructions here worked for me.

Posted 10 years ago #
Sardtok

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That's the Slitaz 4 guide I'm referring to. It works perfectly when I install from the Slitaz 4 ISO, but when I try with the current cooking ISO, it cannot load any of the guest additions.

The modprobe error message from the install script is a bit less verbose also, so I'm guessing there have been made significant changes to BusyBox.

Posted 10 years ago #
gdesilva

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I am running Cooking as well - 3.2.53 as per below. I am running Slitaz Cooking as guest in Ubuntu 13.04 and just followed the instructions in the post mentioned above.

tux@slitaz:~$ uname -r
3.2.53-slitaz
tux@slitaz:~$ su root
Password:
root@slitaz:/home/tux# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: G
ipv6 178458 13
snd_intel8x0 19880 1
snd_ac97_codec 76881 1 snd_intel8x0
ppdev 4062 0
parport_pc 14553 0
parport 21099 2 ppdev,parport_pc
ac97_bus 702 1 snd_ac97_codec
button 3286 0
vboxvideo 1073 1
drm 118562 2 vboxvideo
agpgart 17571 1 drm
i2c_core 12294 1 drm
vboxsf 28184 1
vboxguest 121282 7 vboxsf
snd_hda_intel 16713 0
snd_hda_codec 45592 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 3811 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 42934 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc 4673 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_timer 12073 1 snd_pcm
snd 33335 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 3258 1 snd
root@slitaz:/home/tux#

Posted 10 years ago #
Sardtok

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Except for the kernel version that's pretty much what I get when I install things on Slitaz 4.

VirtualBox 4.3.10 was released a few days ago, so I'll try again with that. They had a few guest addition bug fixes. Among others a problem related to installation on certain 64-bit Linux OSes. I was running 4.3.8, but I'm on a Windows host, not that the host should matter for the installation of guest additions.

Posted 10 years ago #
Sardtok

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No luck. Not quite sure what the issue is, as it works perfectly in Slitaz 4.

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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Except for the kernel version that's pretty much what I get when I install things on Slitaz 4.

What is the output of uname -a on the installed slitaz guest?

Use only 32bit rolling isos here:
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling
Verify your not installing a broken or outdated cooking iso.
Do Not Use:
The slitaz-rolling-core64.iso doesn't boot(kernel panics).
I discovered the following issues which may be part of the problem.
No kernel modules in the linux64-3.2.53.tazpkg the iso is built with.
http://pkgs.slitaz.org/search.sh?filelist=linux64
Every module in the modules64.list should be in the linux64-3.2.53.tazpkg
http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/file/6ebbb23fa7c2/linux64/stuff/modules64.list
tazlito extract-distro slitaz-rolling-core64.iso :
Both kernel packages linux64 and linux receipts are in /var/lib/tazpkg/installed

The 32 bit slitaz-cooking.iso released February 14,2014 with the download link on the home page:
There are 67 kernel driver modules missing from the kernel package used to build the cooking.iso
Linux package fixed to include modules February 19,2014: http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/7d9fe8b78117
Older version of cooking has a different modules path prior to this commit:
http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/db5b03f42dd9
If you install the older iso and install a tazpkg that includes modules from the repo it will install the modules to the wrong path.

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