VBox Additions fail on openSUSE 11.3 - milestone 5

[pablo]

Howdy,

With the latest drop of `openSUSE 11.3 - milestone 5', X was revved and the VirtualBox additions no longer work. During installation the following error is raised:

linux-ekvi:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.6_59338 # ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.1.6 Guest Additions for Linux........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
                                                            done
Building the shared folder support module                   done             
Building the OpenGL support module                          done
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions               done                           
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
                                                                                                            
Installing the Window System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.  Not installing
X Window System drivers.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components                                    done
linux-ekvi:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.6_59338 # 

[Technologov]

Of course it may fail... no one targets unreleased OSes :)

-Technologov

[pablo]

Ideally you release your bits in conjunction with the `gold release' This means you have to test your bits before the O/S is released. ;)

[Michael Thayer]

The 3.2.0 beta 1 might fix this. (Haven't had time to check yet.)

[pablo]

Hi Michael,

I may be able to test it

I'm running 3.1.6' Can I easily [1] downgrade from 3.2.0 beta 1' should `3.2.X' have a problem? I use VBox to run Windows-only VPN software, among other things, so I can't afford to be out for too long. :)

[1] - what I consider `easy' would be copying .xml files, re-installing RPM's. Ideally, I couldn't afford any data-loss. :]

[Michael Thayer]

If that is a production machine, you might prefer to wait a bit, as the changes were backported to the 3.1 series, so any future 3.1 releases should contain them too.

[pablo]

Hi Michael,

I'll wait for the next 3.1 drop and re-test.

Thx! -pablo

[Frank Mehnert]

Should be fixed in VBox 3.1.8

[pablo]

Hi Michael,

I upgraded to `3.1.8 r61349' and the problem still exists. I re-installed the Guest Additions (twice. :) and no mouse integration.

Please let me know what additional data you'd like me to gather and post.

Cheers, -pablo

[Frank Mehnert]

Please attach the /var/log/Xorg.0.log of your guest to this ticket. As well as /var/log/vboxadd-install.log.

[Michael Thayer]

Just getting an ISO to install it here and test. I am downloading the GNOME live CD - please let me know if you are using KDE.

[pablo]

Hi Michael,

I'm using KDE.

I also have the .vdi I'm more than happy to bzip2 and make available. Uncompressed it's ~14 GiB.

Thank you!

[lnozot]

I am running openSUSE 11.3 RC1 currently on 3.1.6 but have been up to VBox 3.2.4.

I believe the guest additions issue is actually connected to openSUSE using xorg v7.5 and I have yet to see that supported in the change log. VBox 3.2.0 did fix a similar issue with Fedora 13 which was using 7.4 (reported for version 3.1.6 but not fixed until v3.2.0)

[Frank Mehnert]

VBox 3.2.6 additions work fine with openSUSE 11.3, closing.