debian sid - What does 98vboxadd-xclient do?
Posted: 18. Nov 2017, 23:51
This causes VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting. when booting in Debian
That being a result of
which makes sense when my install has
My installed packages are
Can I just delete it?
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."
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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
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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