VirtualBox

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#18653 new defect

VBox fails to download "VirtualBox Guest Additions" disk image since 6.0.0

Reported by: vtt Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 6.0.8
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Linux

Description

Hi Since around upgrading to VirtualBox 6.0.0 (valid up to 6.0.8), VBox fails to download "VirtualBox Guest Additions" disk image since 6.0.0. When clicking over "Insert Guest Additions CD Image..." in the "Device" menu, it always ends with the following: "The network operation failed with the following error: During network request: Unknown reason."

(BTW when it was working, this meant clicking too many times on "OK" just to get through, once should be enough)

Attachments (3)

vbox1.png (9.2 KB ) - added by vtt 5 years ago.
First step: "Could not find VGA. Do you wish to download"
vbox2.png (13.6 KB ) - added by vtt 5 years ago.
2nd step: "Are you sure you wan to download..." (should not be asked, I've already say yes before)
vbox3.png (12.0 KB ) - added by vtt 5 years ago.
3rd step: "The network operation failed with the following error: During network request: Unknown reason." after trying to d/l

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Change History (9)

by vtt, 5 years ago

Attachment: vbox1.png added

First step: "Could not find VGA. Do you wish to download"

by vtt, 5 years ago

Attachment: vbox2.png added

2nd step: "Are you sure you wan to download..." (should not be asked, I've already say yes before)

by vtt, 5 years ago

Attachment: vbox3.png added

3rd step: "The network operation failed with the following error: During network request: Unknown reason." after trying to d/l

comment:1 by vtt, 5 years ago

For the record, if I copy & paste the download URL from the 2nd step, it obviously works either with firefox or with curl/wget/lftpget/...

comment:2 by Dsen, 5 years ago

Hello. Thx for report, we have reproduced the issue. Currently it's being analyzed.

comment:3 by Socratis, 5 years ago

Wait a minute... What sort of distro is this that doesn't include the GAs with the main module? @vtt, what's the complete output of:

VBoxManage -version

comment:4 by ChrisC2, 5 years ago

I have exactly the same problem. VBoxManage -version reports the following: 6.0.8_SUSEr130347

It seems every upgrade with Virtualbox on SuSE requires me to download the GAs as a separate operation.

comment:5 by Socratis, 5 years ago

@ChrisC2

How about if you installed the official VirtualBox, and not SuSE's fork? The GAs are always included, and you'll sleep better knowing that you're running the official one. ;)

See: Linux_Downloads.

comment:6 by liar666, 4 years ago

Same problem here under GNU/Linux... Never worked for me, when running VBox as a user... But it succeeds when run as root.

As the download seems to go through in its entirety before the error occurs, the problem seems to simply be that VBox tries to copy the iso file downloaded as the user into a system directory. Duh!

Please correct that quickly, this is a very stupid error and should be simple to correct...

Also downloading manually (from: download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/<VBox version>/VBoxGuestAdditions_<VBox version>.iso) and putting the iso in a user writable dir (e.g. ~/.config/VirtualBox), then inserting it like a normal CD perfectly works...

Last edited 4 years ago by liar666 (previous) (diff)
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