debian sid - What does 98vboxadd-xclient do?

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milomak
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debian sid - What does 98vboxadd-xclient do?

Post by milomak »

This causes VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting. when booting in Debian

That being a result of

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if ! test -c /dev/vboxguest 2>/dev/null; then
   # Do not start if the kernel module is not present.
   notify-send "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running.  Exiting."
which makes sense when my install has

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# ls -lah /dev/vbox*
crw------- 1 root root      10, 56 Nov 18 23:30 /dev/vboxdrv
crw------- 1 root root      10, 55 Nov 18 23:30 /dev/vboxdrvu
crw------- 1 root root      10, 54 Nov 18 23:30 /dev/vboxnetctl

/dev/vboxusb:
total 0
drwxr-x---  3 root vboxusers   60 Nov 18 23:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root      3.4K Nov 18 23:30 ..
drwxr-x---  2 root vboxusers   80 Nov 18 23:29 001
My installed packages are

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# dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
ii  virtualbox                                  5.2.0-dfsg-5                         amd64        x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii  virtualbox-dkms                             5.2.0-dfsg-5                         all          x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii  virtualbox-ext-pack                         5.2.0-2                              all          extra capabilities for VirtualBox, downloader.
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso              5.2.1-118918-1                       all          guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii  virtualbox-guest-dkms                       5.2.0-dfsg-5                         all          x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii  virtualbox-guest-source                     5.2.0-dfsg-5                         all          x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils                      5.2.0-dfsg-5                         amd64        x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii  virtualbox-guest-x11                        5.2.0-dfsg-5                         amd64        x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
ii  virtualbox-qt                               5.2.0-dfsg-5                         amd64        x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
ii  virtualbox-source                           5.2.0-dfsg-5                         all          x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source
Can I just delete it?
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Re: debian sid - What does 98vboxadd-xclient do?

Post by mpack »

I'm not seeing the package referenced in the topic title. I'd be surprised if I did on two counts, (1) there are no VBoxAdditions for Win98, and (2) what would those be doing on a Debian host anyway?
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