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better to build VirtualBox from SVN

That is obviously easy for you, with your experience, but I never attempted it. I am willing to try; are there any Howtos on this?

Building on Linux is a piece of cake, but on Windows it is just more effort than I want to put forth. I used to build it years ago but then it changed and the requirements just became too costly. You can read about building on the VirtualBox.org website as well as the OSE portion of the forum, but it requires an advanced knowledge of building and a lot of additional packages to make it happen.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Windows ... structions

viewforum.php?f=10

Thank you. It looks too complicated for me, I had better leave it in the hands of competent people.

Many thanks for your valuable comments and advice.

Solved.

Installed VirtualBox-5.0.17-106267 and GuestAdditions-5.0.17-106155 (the latter from the command line after the login prompt). Boots now correctly to the desktop, but only with 3D acceleration off.

Thanks again to perryg for valuable advice.

I will rephrase that "Solved" (last post) to "Partly solved". After opening applications, a few mouse clicks or drag-and-drop moves result in a frozen screen. The only wat out is to power off via the VBox main menu.

The GAs included in build 5.0.17-106267 are still the 5.0.16 version, and installation of the 5.0.17-106155 GAs stops without adding the window system drivers, so I am back to the old kernel.

If you go back to the repo version of the additions, you can just add "iomem=relaxed" as a kernel parameter in grub. The problem is that X.org moved to rootless in the version pushed out, which breaks the Vbox additions. That line can be removed once they get the 5.0.17 version in the repos.

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-fac ... 00287.html

It got it working for me again, although shared folders seems to be broken.

Thanks, TeutonJon, that works perfectly as a kernel parameter.

I am still using the files obtained from VirtualBox, not the repo versions. Shared folders are OK. I never got shared folders working with the repo versions, you might consider changing if you want to use them.

I just encountered this on a brand new installation of Antergos (Arch). Adding the iomem parameter to /etc/defaults/grub worked like a charm.