[vbox-dev] Announcement: VirtualBox 5.0.17 r106108 Guest Additions update for Linux guests - update to r106114

[Sérgio Basto]

On Ter, 2016-04-05 at 14:03 +0000, Jim Basilio wrote:
> Hi Sergio:
> 
> Can you follow up on what you did here? I think I'm at a similar
> spot.
> 
> I copied in my vboxvideo.so by hand since the installer didn't seem
> to 
> do it, that got it loading in the Xorg.0.log file:
> [   472.172] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
> [   472.172] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo.so
> [   472.172] (II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation"
> [   472.172]  compiled for 1.15.0, module version = 1.0.1
> [   472.172]  Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [   472.172]  ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 15.0
> [   472.172] (**) Load address of symbol "VBOXVIDEO" is
> 0x7f6b3c7362e0
> 
> Now I get a black screen trying to load and at the end of my
> Xorg.0.log 
> I have:
> 
> [   472.184] (II) VBoxVideo(0): kernel driver found, not loading.
> [   472.184] (II) UnloadModule: "vboxvideo"
> [   472.184] (II) UnloadSubModule: "vgahw"
> [   472.184] (II) Unloading vgahw
> [   472.184] (II) UnloadSubModule: "shadowfb"
> [   472.184] (II) Unloading shadowfb
> [   472.184] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fb"
> [   472.184] (II) Unloading fb
> [   472.184] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
> configuration.
> [   472.184] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [   472.184] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [   472.184] (EE)
> 
> 
> I think this lines up with where you were, but I'm not sure what you
> did 
> to fix it.
> 
> Any help is MASSIVELY appreciated!

Guest Additions update for Linux guests => delete vboxvideo.so and
vboxvideo_drv.so

diff listoldguestfiles listnewguestfiles -up 
+/usr/lib64/VBoxEGL.so
-/usr/lib64/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so
-/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so

we still need kmod vboxvideo.ko 


-- 
Sérgio M. B.