OMV 3.0.51 Virtualbox upgraded to 5.1.8 and will not work anymore

DenisM. · 5. November 2016

The version of the Extensions and Vbox does not match. I tried everything (uninstall, different versions, different kernel, recompiling) but had no success. Even a fresh installation from the 3.0.36 ISO has the same problem, if I install the virtualbox via web interface.
It had worked before the 2. of November.
I can not start the service. Message is

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Failed to execute XPath query '/config/services/virtualbox'.

And

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vboxmanage -v

gives me

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The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the approbiate
headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.

ryecoaaron · 5. November 2016

I updated the virtualbox-ext-pack-installer package to 5.1.8 and added build-essential to the dependencies of the plugin. Works on my VM now. You will still get a message about needing phpvirtualbox 5.1 but that doesn't exist and 5.0 seems to work.

shom · 5. November 2016

You can't find patch in my github repo (https://github.com/shom/phpvirtualbox), it's support for virtualbox 5.1.8.
the phpvirtualbox in /usr/share/phpvirtualbox.

ryecoaaron · 5. November 2016

No offense but I prefer to stick with Ian's official releases. If his release stops working, I would consider it.

WilliButz · 6. November 2016

ryecoaaron thanks for the VBox update.

Now I have OMV 3.51 with VBox 5.1.8 and phpVirtualVox 5.0.5.
I also get the phpVirtualBox warning.

Here I found a workaround:
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpv…/general/thread/565b7f31/

In/usr/share/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/api.php
# $response['data']['responseData']['phpvboxver'] =@constant('PHPVBOX_VER');
$response['data']['responseData']['phpvboxver']= "5.1-0";

Optical workaround, ugly but works.

ryecoaaron · 7. November 2016

I'm not worried about the warning unless it causes functional issues. The virtualbox plugin is not supposed to even be maintained anymore. I definitely don't want spending my time patching something that really isn't broken.

OMV 3.0.51 Virtualbox upgraded to 5.1.8 and will not work anymore

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