Changeset 75701 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions/darwin/Installer/VBoxGuestAdditionsKEXTs

Timestamp:

Nov 25, 2018 1:39:10 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

add/darwin/inst: Need to 'touch /System/Library/Extensions/' and run 'kextcache-update-volume /' after installing VBoxGuest.kext into /Library/Extensions/. OS X should then find and load it on its own.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/darwin/Installer/VBoxGuestAdditionsKEXTs/postflight (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/darwin/Installer/VBoxGuestAdditionsKEXTs/postflight

@@ -60 +60 @@
     fi
 done
-echo "Loading newly installed kernel extensions."
-kextload "/Library/Extensions/VBoxGuest.kext"
+
+echo "Updating kernel cache (should trigger loading of new modules)."
+touch "/System/Library/Extensions/"
+kextcache -update-volume / || true
+
+#echo "Loading newly installed kernel extensions."
+#kextload "/Library/Extensions/VBoxGuest.kext"
 
 load_service "org.virtualbox.additions.vboxservice" "/Library/LaunchDaemons" "root"