Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by JiF_Brodeur »

Hi, I am running a guest OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK on a Mac OS X. I run BETA3 r118015 and the video driver of VB does not install in the Guest Additions. Kernel configuration invalid error message in the boxadd-setup.log file. Linux version: Oracle Linux 7.4 Kernel version: 4.1.12-103.3.8.el7uek.x86_64.

I was never able to get the video driver to be installed properly for that kernel version neither in version 5.1.28, BETA2 and BETA3. I think there might be and issue with VB Guest Additions video driver UEL kernel version 4.1.12 with X11 version 1.19?
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by Perryg »

Disable 3D acceleration in the display settings for the guest. From what I have found that is where the incompatibility is. AAFIK the DEVs are aware and are working on it.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Hi, 3D acceleration is not and was not enabled in the machine settings of the guest.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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I think the B3 additions may be corrupt. Check the file size and if it is not approx 60MB try the beta-2 and see if it works

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... _BETA2.iso
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by JiF_Brodeur »

Hi and thanks for your help, better yet I've installed the RC1, the Guest addition image is roughly 58MB, still no luck in installing it though. Included is the setup logfile.
Thanbks
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by Perryg »

Yeah but I really wanted you to try the one I listed. I have a concern that the GAs are having an issue since. I know the B2 one works from me.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Hi, I used the link you provided to download the GA iso file, installed it, got the following error:
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until the system is restarted
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: modprobe vboxsf failed
Press Return to close this window...

and still no luck with the video driver.
Thanks for your cooperation
Jean-Frs
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by Perryg »

This might take a while. I have not been able to get any GA to work properly since the one I posted that does work for me in 7.4. Debugging now but there are a lot of changes in VBox and in the RH kernel and they don't seem to want to play well together for some reason.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Thanks PerryG I appreciate, if there is anything else I could do to help I would be happy to try.
Thanks
Jean-François
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by michael »

Hello Jean-François,

Some useful information would be the contents of any files under /var/log with "virtualbox" or "vbox" in some form in the name, as well as the output of "lsmod | grep box" and modinfo vboxvideo.

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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Hi Michael, here is the output of "lsmod | grep box" and modinfo vboxvideo and the latest setup file with content in it.

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[oracle@localhost ~]$ lsmod | grep box
vboxsf                 36864  1 
vboxguest             315392  5 vboxsf

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[oracle@localhost ~]$ modinfo vboxvideo
filename:       /lib/modules/4.1.12-103.7.1.el7uek.x86_64/misc/vboxvideo.ko
version:        5.2.0_BETA2 r117563
license:        GPL and additional rights
description:    Oracle VM VirtualBox Graphics Card
author:         Oracle Corporation
srcversion:     B5C1DA3780FD58339BC3B3F
alias:          pci:v000080EEd0000BEEFsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm,syscopyarea,sysfillrect,sysimgblt
vermagic:       4.1.12-103.7.1.el7uek.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           modeset:Disable/Enable modesetting (int)
Thanks for your help and if you need anything else, I would be happy to help.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

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Hello Jean-François,
From the log you provided it actually looks as if everything was set up correctly. Could you please provide more information about what is going wrong?
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by JiF_Brodeur »

Hi, I could not resize video still, I upgraded to production release of VB 5.2.2 r119785 with the latest kernel version of OUL: 4.1.12-112.14.1.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Fri Dec 8 18:37:23 PST 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Can you help please?
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by michael »

It would be good to see system log files, including the X server log file and the journal output. I'm afraid I can't remember where OL7 puts the X server log file, so you will have to find that yourself. And of course it would be good to test with 5.2.4, though I do not expect that to solve the problem.
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Re: Guest Additions video drivers not loading on OEL7.4/OEL7.4UEK

Post by Perryg »

IIRC most if not all issues with video were partially fixed in 5.2.4 ( with matching guest additions ). I just tested my OEL-7.4 ( 4.1.12-112.14.1.el7uek.x86_64 ) against the lastest SVN I have ( r70243 ) and resize functions properly as well as working with 3D acceleration enabled. Xorg.0.log is found in /var/log by the way. If it matters host has nVidia proprietary drivers on Linux host.
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