On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, Gregory Nowak wrote:

This is in fact a problem with debian's kernel package, which is
inherited by devuan. Specifically, the vbox guest modules are compiled
into the kernel included with debian/devuan, which seems to cause the
building of the guest modules to fail when the guest additions are
being installed. Reconfiguring the kernel build to exclude the vbox
guest modules and compiling a custom kernel should allow the modules
included with the guest additions to build and install
successfully.

I appreciate this information as I was unaware that vbox modules were included in the kernel distribution.

However, I note that the modules provided by Debian are not located in the kernel/misc directory under /lib/modules where vbox looks for them. vbox generates modules there, which are presumably the ones loaded, and which work successfully, and which are NOT recompiled every time the virtual machine is restarted; this can be checked from the file timestamps.

I still think that the problem is triggering of an incorrect message.


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