Bug 280738 – app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.2 fails to start virtualbox-guest-additions

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Akinori Hattori 2009-08-08 11:27:28 UTC]

# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start
 * Starting VirtualBox guest additions ...
 *      Loading kernel modules and creating devices
 *      Starting the vboxadd system service
 * Failed to start VirtualBox guest additions

[Comment 1 Akinori Hattori 2009-08-08 11:29:11 UTC]

Created attachment 200564 [details, diff]
fix

[Comment 2 Alex Barker 2009-09-14 20:39:42 UTC]

Patched worked well thanks.  This needs to be bumped to 3.0.6

[Comment 3 Gustavo Delfino 2009-10-01 20:14:37 UTC]

The patch worked well for me too.

[Comment 4 MT 2009-10-20 15:26:12 UTC]

the patch works well also for app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.8

[Comment 5 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-11-03 01:53:30 UTC]

patch added to virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.10[1]

Thanks

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey

[Comment 6 boludiko 2009-11-10 06:32:34 UTC]

i don't know how patch the 3.0.10 version, i installed this version with emerge, if i installed this patch i can resize the window size¿

[Comment 7 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-11-10 20:18:46 UTC]

@patrick

can you please add the updated initd file to the tree?
(currently is on jokey's overlay[1])

thanks

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey/browser/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions/files/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.initd

[Comment 8 VinyJones 2009-11-11 19:08:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> i don't know how patch the 3.0.10 version, i installed this version with
> emerge, if i installed this patch i can resize the window size¿
> 
you have to patch this file "/etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions"

[Comment 9 boludiko 2009-11-11 21:36:24 UTC]

ok, i patch the virtual-guest-additions and works, but how can i  reconfigure the screen? the screen dont auto-resize, and dont detect resolutions.

[Comment 10 Brad Laue 2010-01-26 15:46:10 UTC]

This can be closed as it's no longer in the tree