On 9/13/21 10:26 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 9/13/21 5:40 AM, Vadim Galitsin wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Additions r146688 should have support for 5.14 kernels. Have you tried to >> rebuild Additions with "sudo rcvboxadd setup"? >> >> Best regards, >> Vadim > > Okay, > > Here is/was the deal. Archlinux had issues with it's dkms package. There > were multiple updates upstream and Arch follows upstream. The packages updated > and dates were: > > [2021-08-31T02:51:33-0500] [ALPM] upgraded dkms (2.8.4-1 -> 2.8.5-1) > [2021-09-05T20:29:01-0500] [ALPM] upgraded dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) > [2021-09-12T23:13:51-0500] [ALPM] upgraded dkms (2.8.6-1 -> 2.8.6-2) > > The dkms 2.8.6-1 package was acting odd, leaving old folders for drivers for > vbox versions that no longer existed on the system. When I updated to 5.14.2 > with dkms-2.8.6-1 the vboxsf module failed to build for whatever reasons. (I > forced a rebuild on the guest twice but it still didn't build correctly) > > Today I updated to the Arch package dkms-2.8.6-2 and updated the kernel to > 5.14.3. With the new dkms, the vboxsf module built just like it was supposed > to and everything is working fine on 5.14. > > So while I don't know exactly why vboxsf didn't build correctly with 5.14.2, > but I strongly suspect it was due to the issue with the dkms package. > > You are correct, the testbuild ver. r146688 support the 5.14 kernel just > fine. >
Let me qualify this a bit. I have another Arch server with the same setup. However, I had not updated dkms or the kernel on that box until after I succeeded with getting shared folders working directly on the first. So yesterday, after I sent this reply, I updated that box directly to vbox testbuild r146688, dkms 2.8.6-2 and Linux 5.14.3. After updating the kernel, allowing the modules to build and rebooting I started the Archlinux guest on the server and updated the kernel to 5.14.3,, rebooted, ran the new guest addition install from the .iso and rebooted expecting the shared folders to work just as they had on the first server I migrated. But no, the vboxsf device is found, but the contents of the directory is empty. I re-ran the guest additions install again, rebooted, same problem. There seems to be something still going on with the 5.14 update. I'll double-check for old dkms folders on this second box, but don't expect any (dkms status ran and reported correctly). I'll report back after further investigation. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
