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
rc-service vboxservice start
but that says
* 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.
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?
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 ;)
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.