Discussions about using Linux guests in VirtualBox.
nvidia5500
Posts: 1 Joined: 6. Aug 2017, 17:17
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by nvidia5500 » 6. Aug 2017, 17:23
Hey all,
Upon upgrading RHEL 7.3 -> 7.4, the VBox guest additions doesn't seem to load the vboxvideo driver even though it's successfully compiled:
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# insmod /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxvideo.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxvideo.ko: Invalid parameters
Also logs from Xorg also show the same problem:
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[ 10.977] (==) Matched vboxvideo as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 10.977] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
[ 10.978] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo
....
[ 10.978] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
PocketSizeSun
Posts: 1 Joined: 7. Aug 2017, 22:57
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by PocketSizeSun » 7. Aug 2017, 23:12
On my setup I am seeing (v7.4 vs 7.3) the vboxvideo driver is not being built for X11 (or installed) for X11.
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[user@r74vm ~]$ sudo find /usr -name vbox\*
/usr/sbin/vbox-uninstall-guest-additions
/usr/sbin/vbox-greeter
/usr/src/vboxguest-5.1.26
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxvideo.ko
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxsf.ko
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxguest.ko
...
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:48:[ 10.459] (==) Matched vboxvideo as autoconfigured driver 0
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:53:[ 10.459] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:54:[ 10.459] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:55:[ 10.459] (II) UnloadModule: "vboxvideo"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:56:[ 10.459] (II) Unloading vboxvideo
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:57:[ 10.459] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
...
Installed packages:
xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 7.7-6.el7 @anaconda/7.2
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64 1:1.0.13-3.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
...
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 13.2.1-1.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
...
xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64 1.19.3-11.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64 1.19.3-11.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
xorg-x11-server-utils.x86_64 7.7-20.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
xorg-x11-utils.x86_64 7.5-22.el7 @rhel-7-server-rpms
CentOS 7 (aka RHEL 7.3)
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[user@c7 dev]$ sudo find /usr -name vbox\*
/usr/sbin/vbox-greeter
/usr/sbin/vbox-uninstall-guest-additions
/usr/src/vboxguest-5.1.26
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxadd-x11.service
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxsf.ko
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxvideo.ko
/usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64/misc/vboxguest.ko
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
...
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:48:[ 13.960] (==) Matched vboxvideo as autoconfigured driver 0
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:53:[ 13.960] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:54:[ 13.960] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:55:[ 13.961] (II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation"
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Installed packages:
xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64 7.7-6.el7 @anaconda
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64 1:1.0.11-4.el7 @anaconda
...
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 13.0.2-7.20150211git8f0cf7c.el7 @anaconda
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xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64 1.17.2-22.el7 @anaconda
xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64 1.17.2-22.el7 @anaconda
xorg-x11-server-utils.x86_64 7.7-14.el7 @anaconda
xorg-x11-utils.x86_64 7.5-14.el7 @anaconda
Hope this is helpful in tracking down what changed in RHEL 7.4 for the video driver. I've really gotten used the the auto-resize guest
Thanks!
erkan
Posts: 1 Joined: 20. Aug 2017, 13:48
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by erkan » 20. Aug 2017, 13:56
Hi,
Same problem. vboxvideo.ko is not loading. I workaround the problem by downgrading x11 from 1.19 to 1.17.
elektronen
Posts: 1 Joined: 28. Aug 2017, 18:51
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by elektronen » 28. Aug 2017, 18:52
Current 5.2 Beta 2 and its Guest Additions work correctly with Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.4 guest. I was seeing the same issues described in this thread with official 5.1.26.
JiF_Brodeur
Posts: 81 Joined: 19. Sep 2017, 03:37
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by JiF_Brodeur » 23. Sep 2017, 18:44
Hi Running the latest version of BETA2 with kernel 4.1.12 X11 version 1.19 to no avail, what configuration did you get it to work?
Thanks
Jean-Frs