VirtualBox: shared folder broken ?

[Dominique Dumont]

Hi

Since the last few days, VirtualBox can not mount shared drive because vboxsf
module is not loaded.

And modprobe refuses to load vboxsf:
$ sudo modprobe vboxsf
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device

dmesg does not help in this case:
[ 441.872189] vboxguest: PCI device not found, probably running on physical
hardware.

Does anyone have a similar issue ?

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[Georgi Naplatanov]

On 11/07/2017 12:57 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since the last few days, VirtualBox can not mount shared drive because vboxsf
> module is not loaded.
>
> And modprobe refuses to load vboxsf:
> $ sudo modprobe vboxsf
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device
>
> dmesg does not help in this case:
> [ 441.872189] vboxguest: PCI device not found, probably running on physical
> hardware.
>
> Does anyone have a similar issue ?

Which Debian version/branch are you using - stable/testing/unstable?

Where did you get Virtualbox packages from?

By the way, I'm using Debian 9 with Virtualbox 5.1 and it is working
just fine. I downloaded VB 5.2 a few weeks ago but somehow IO was very
slow and I downgraded VB back to 5.1.

Kind regards
Georgi

[Dominique Dumont]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:28:03 CET Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> Which Debian version/branch are you using - stable/testing/unstable?
>
> Where did you get Virtualbox packages from?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that.

I'm on Debian/sid with using latest Debian packages:

$ dpkg -l virtualbox* |grep ii
ii virtualbox 5.2.0-dfsg-3 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-dkms 5.2.0-dfsg-3 all x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-ext-pack 5.2.0-2 all extra capabilities for VirtualBox, downloader.
ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 5.2.1-118452-1 all guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-guest-dkms 5.2.0-dfsg-3 all x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 5.2.0-dfsg-3 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-qt 5.2.0-dfsg-3 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

> By the way, I'm using Debian 9 with Virtualbox 5.1 and it is working
> just fine. I downloaded VB 5.2 a few weeks ago but somehow IO was very
> slow and I downgraded VB back to 5.1.

I'd like to have a confirmation of the problem from other people before logging a bug.
Going back to testing is another option.

[deloptes]

Dominique Dumont wrote:

> I'd like to have a confirmation of the problem from other people before
> logging a bug. Going back to testing is another option.

I have only

ii virtualbox-5.2 5.2.0-118431~Debian~stretch
amd64 Oracle VM VirtualBox

I have it on two machines. I think I downloaded it from their site. No
problem with mount or slow io etc. well putting it on nfs share definitely
takes long ;-) - my home is on nfs and it created the machine in my home by
default

regards