(solved) VirtualBox guest additions 3.1.8

[damNageHack]

SalixOS 13.1beta1 with slapt-get --upgrade and kernel-source package installed.

Manually doing "modprobe -v vboxguest" gives "Invalid module format".

[JRD]

Yeah...I made my own patches for this to compile and run, but then I had some graphical glitches (so my patches were not ok it seems). At last, I compile latest VirtualBox, and this is working good. I need to contact the main packager of VirtualBox...

[damNageHack]

Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that host is VirtualBox PUEL 3.1.8 RPM package (for Fedora 12 running on F13) from virtualbox.org ...

[gapan]

Are you sure you have the same version of all kernel packages installed? The kernel packages have been upgraded to 2.6.33.4 shortly after the release of 13.1beta1.

[damNageHack]

Are you sure you have the same version of all kernel packages installed?

uname -r --> 2.6.33.3-smp
ls -d /usr/src/linux-* --> 2.6.33.4

"slapt-get --upgrade" does not find any new packages.
Outch!

[gapan]

You need to upgrade your kernel packages. Search the wiki on how to do that.

[damNageHack]

You need to upgrade your kernel packages. Search the wiki on how to do that.

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... the_kernel
Thank you very much.

After doing the updates with "slapt-get -i <pkg>" and a reboot, mouse and keyboard does not work any more in vbox....
EDIT: ACPI seems also to be dead

[Akuna]

All these packages have to be from the same version: kernel-headers kernel-huge-smp kernel-modules-smp & kernel-source.

Could it be that you forgot to upgrade kernel-modules-smp?

[damNageHack]

How can I reactivate keyboard (+mouse) in the (with kernel) updated vbox?

EDIT:

Could it be that you forgot to upgrade kernel-modules-smp?

No. I did "slapt-get -i pkgs" where pkgs was the line got from EXCLUDED output of "slapt-get --upgrade" without aaa_base. By the way: The howto in wiki is confusing, it is easier to use slapt-get --upgrade to see all EXCLUDED packages and do individual manual upgrade for those.
I did it again and same result, no mouse and no keyboard input possible any more.

It seems that the devs are currently working on patches for kernel 2.6.33.x ...
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26821
http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-d ... 02163.html

[Duncan_Idaho]

No. I did "slapt-get -i pkgs" where pkgs was the line got from EXCLUDED output of "slapt-get --upgrade" without aaa_base. By the way: The howto in wiki is confusing, it is easier to use slapt-get --upgrade to see all EXCLUDED packages and do individual manual upgrade for those.

what I always do to upgrade packages is

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slapt-get --upgrade --ignore-excludes

and always remember to run lilo after a kernel upgrade