Hi all, the process of tidying up my Linux machine and I stumbled on the following message during boot:
vboxadd[896]: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ..failed
Could someone please educate me on this matter?
- pligdas,
VirtualBox is a virtualization solution similar to VMWare. The add-ons provide additional features and get loaded at boot time. They need to be configured and recompiled when the kernel changes, that’s often a reason for a load failure. If you don’t use VirtualBox, you can delete them.
Uwe
In Yast - System - Runlevel editor, disable the vbox services if you don’t use Virtualbox, and the messages will disappear.
Thanks buckesfeld. I removed VirtualBox and got rid of one of the two error messages.
Then as Knurpht suggested, I disabled vbox services in Runlevel editor and I got rid of the second one.
Thank you both for the prompt replies.
BTW, I was asked to update my kernel to kernel PAE, which I did.
On 2012-05-02 15:46, Knurpht wrote:
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> In Yast - System - Runlevel editor, disable the vbox services if you
> don’t use Virtualbox, and the messages will disappear.
And remove the corresponding rpms, which I don’t know how they are called.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)