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OpenRC script for virtualbox-guest-utils

Howdy,

I'm running Artix in VirtualBox, and as such I was looking for virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-guest-utils-openrc. But the latter doesn't exist. So I made the init script by adapting the one from Gentoo. It is not perfect but at least it starts the service and loads the kernel modules.

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#!/sbin/openrc-run
# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

pidfile="/var/run/vboxguest-service.pid"
#command="/usr/sbin/vboxguest-service"
command="/usr/sbin/VBoxService"
command_args="--foreground"
command_background="true"

depend() {
	need dbus localmount
	before display-manager
}

start_pre() {
	einfo "Loading kernel modules"
	/sbin/modprobe vboxguest 2>&1
	/sbin/modprobe vboxsf 2>&1
	/sbin/modprobe vboxvideo 2>&1
}

stop_post() {
	einfo "Removing kernel modules"
	/sbin/modprobe -r vboxvideo 2>&1
	/sbin/modprobe -r vboxsf 2>&1
	/sbin/modprobe -r vboxguest 2>&1
}

Hope it helps,
Viliam

Re: OpenRC script for virtualbox-guest-utils

Reply #2 –
Not bad, but you could list the related virtualbox modules in /etc/modules-load.d/vboxmodules.conf instead.