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Problem install vbox additions

Hi, I'm new to the forum

I've been using Arch for a while but since it died on me because of my own fault I wanted to try Artix with OpenRC. But first in a VM.
Now, I want to install the virtualbox additions, so I have a bigger screen etc. but it's not working.

I use Xorg and the Suckless DWM and they work fine. I then try to install virtualbox-guest-utils from the package manager. It installs, but after that.... noting. I try to run it with
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rc-service vboxservice start
but that says
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 * rc-service: service 'vboxservice' does not exist
.

Has anyone experienced this before? Am I doing something stupid? I've been searching for a few hours. I also tried the package virtualbox-guest-modules-artix but that doesn't work either.

Re: Problem install vbox additions

Reply #1 –
maybe because no vboxservice service exist. ;)  Artix provide no openrc servce for virtualbox, bacause for host you need no one.

If you need really vboxservice, run it manually...

P.S. for what you need this service?

Re: Problem install vbox additions

Reply #2 –
There used to be the package virtualbox-guest-utils-openrc.
However, this package no longer seems to exist.

Therefore, you cannot start this service or add it to the runlevel default  ;)

Re: Problem install vbox additions

Reply #3 –
If I recall correctly, all the arch systemd service does is start a bunch of kernel modules on boot. You can accomplish the same thing by simply creating a *.conf file in /usr/lib/modules-load.d (/run/modules-load.d and /etc/modules-load.d are also valid directories) and putting each module you want to load in a separate line in the file. All inits on artix load any modules found in those directories on bootup.