Missing VBoxREM.so in Ubuntu 20.04

[sonny]

I installed virtualbox via the apt system in my new Ubuntu server and I see that it is missing the system file

/usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxREM.so

which is supposed to be sym-linked to

../VBoxREM.so

The upshot of this is that my vboxheadless calls do not look like they are working, but it does (i.e., VM is running). That said, I do see some weird issues which may be unrelated (two IP addresses granted to VM, and no IP listed when enumerated using vboxmanage).

I specifically get this error:

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Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 6.1.6_Ubuntu
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VBoxHeadless: supR3HardenedVerifyFileFollowSymlinks: Failed to resolve the real path '/usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxREM.so': No such file or directory (2)

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I am using VirtualBox 6.1.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 server x_64 edn.

[scottgus1]

I installed virtualbox via the apt system in my new Ubuntu server

If this is Ubuntu's repository, then that's Ubuntu's fork of Virtualbox, and they would know better where the file can be obtained.

20.04 is too new, and isn't yet officially supported. (when there's a 20.04 link in https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads then it will be supported.)

Also a Linux Hosts question, not Using Virtualbox.

You can try searching the Linux Hosts subforum.

[sergiomb]

I had the same report here [1] now the default build doesn't build VBoxREM.so so we also don't want the symbol link , I send a patch that fix this problem . As usual the patch is sent under MIT License


[1]
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5652