Changeset 77196 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Installer

Timestamp:

Feb 7, 2019 1:33:50 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Help text: explain about EFI Secure Boot and signing.
ticketref:18312: Unable to build Virtualbox 6.0 on Fedora 29
When a user tries to use VirtualBox on a Linux system with EFI Secure Boot
enabled, it sometimes fails in a non-obvious way due to unsigned kernel
modules. As it is rather tricky to detect this properly, mention it in the
help text which is shown when there are problems with the modules.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/postinst-common.sh (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/postinst-common.sh

@@ -104 +104 @@
         echo "There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run" >&2
         echo "  /sbin/vboxconfig" >&2
-        echo "as root." >&2
+        echo "as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the" >&2
+        echo "kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load" >&2
+        echo " them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information." >&2
     else
         start_init_script vboxdrv