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Sardtok

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Registered: 2014-03-27

Posts: 4

Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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!

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

Did you check this out....?

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

Instructions here worked for me.

Sardtok

Member

Registered: 2014-03-27

Posts: 4

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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.

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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#

Sardtok

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Registered: 2014-03-27

Posts: 4

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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.

Sardtok

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Registered: 2014-03-27

Posts: 4

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Virtual Box guest additions on Feb 2014 Cooking release

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

What is the output of [c]uname -a[/c] 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

[c]tazlito extract-distro slitaz-rolling-core64.iso[/c] :

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.