Ubuntu Guest Additions Xorg Drivers

[maztaim]

After running through the install successfully for Guest additions on Ubuntu, When starting xorg I get the following:

(EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "vboxmouse" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

So I thought, must be the xorg.conf.

Section "Input Device"
     ...
     Driver      "vboxvideo"
     ...
EndSection

Section "Device"
     ...
     Driver      "vboxvideo"
     ...
EndSection

Well. It works if I revert just those two offending lines. So I wonder about the drivers themselves.

So I did a little more digging:

find /usr/lib/xorg -ls | grep vbox
354511  32 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       30832 Mar  3 02:29 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vboxmouse_drv.o
354273  24 -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       23092 Mar  3 02:29 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.o

Sadly, I don't know much else other than it APPEARS alright. As far as I can tell, all looks as it should for an Ubuntu install...

[DracoBlue]

Hello,

I am using Xubuntu 6.10 and it worked very well. Which version did you tried? With 1.3.6 VB.

Kind regards,

Jan (DracoBlue)

[Frank Mehnert]

Please would you post your Xorg.0.log and your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Thanks in advance.

[mike4711]

It doesn't work for me as well. XP as host, Feisty Alpha 5 as guest

After installing the additions it says: Successfully installed the Virtualbox Guest Additions. But a reboot leaves me in the shell. startx says: Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist , 0)

Failed to load module "vboxmouse" (module does not exist , 0)

[dranger003]

Hello,

I have the same issue running Feisty Herd 4 and VirtualBox 1.3.6 (deb). After installing the VBoxLinuxAdditions the drivers installed fine.

The /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vboxmouse_drv.o & /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.o both should have ".so" extensions instead of ".o" as all the other files in both directories.

Is this a new format for the X server used in Feisty to have drivers as ".so" instead of ".o" or is this an issue with VBox that doesn't compile the drivers correctly?

Thanks for any help! Dan.

[dranger003]

And also, renaming (or symblinking) both files to have ".so" extensions doesn't work either (says "Loader failed"). This is really an issue with the format of the drivers.

[dranger003]

Ok, I found a fix. Here's what I did:

1) Mount the VBoxAdditions.iso 2) Extract the ".so" driver files using VBoxLinuxAdditions.sh --noexec --target /tmp

(The files needed will be in /tmp)

3) Copy /tmp/vboxmouse_drv_71.so and /tmp/vboxvideo_drv_71.so to the appropriate paths

(e.g.: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/ and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ respectively)

4) Symblink both files to remove the "_71" part in the filenames

(e.g.: ln -s vboxmouse_drv_71.so vboxmouse_drv.so - do the same for vboxvideo_drv_71.so)

Start your X server.

Cheers, Dan.

[rainbowbuilder]

This fix worked fine on WinXP host, Ubuntu Herd5 guest on VirtualBox 1.3.6 Thanks much

gary

[Frank Mehnert]

The problem is that Ubuntu Herd5 started to use Xorg 7.2.0 which is not properly detected by the install.sh script. This will be fixed in the next release.