vboxservice.service fails to start on Fedora 25

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H0wdy
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vboxservice.service fails to start on Fedora 25

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systemctl restart vboxservice.service
[root@DDesktop david]# systemctl status vboxservice.service
● vboxservice.service - VirtualBox guest services
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vboxservice.service; enabled; vendor 
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Wed 2017-05-24 09:20:29 CDT; 8s ago
           ├─ ConditionVirtualization=|kvm was not met
           └─ ConditionVirtualization=|oracle was not met
New fedora 25 machine/install.

What am I missing?
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Sapo
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Re: vboxservice.service fails to start on Fedora 25

Post by Sapo »

systemctl restart vboxservice.service

This command is run on your VM Guest not on the host.

Hopefully you got your system up and running. :D
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Re: vboxservice.service fails to start on Fedora 25

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@Sapo
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