{"id":254,"date":"2019-05-20T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?p=254"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:38:49","slug":"fedora-30-virtualbox-and-libxcrypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/2019\/05\/fedora-30-virtualbox-and-libxcrypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 30, Virtualbox and  libxcrypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a never ending story. New dist release, new problems with Virtualbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the current problem with a Fedora 30 guest on a Windows host and Virtualbox 6.0.8? Well, the guest additions won&#8217;t work, especially <code>vboxadd.service<\/code> refuses to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After asking my search engine of choice it revealed the libxcrypt to be the culprit. There are some changes mentioned at <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/30\/ChangeSet\">https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/30\/ChangeSet<\/a> and it is referenced at <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=92953\">https:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=92953<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install the <code>libxcrypt-compat<\/code> package and the <code>vboxadd.service<\/code> will start again, problem fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a never ending story. New dist release, new problems with Virtualbox. What is the current problem with a Fedora 30 guest on a Windows host and Virtualbox 6.0.8? Well, the guest additions won&#8217;t work, especially vboxadd.service refuses to start. After asking my search engine of choice it revealed the libxcrypt to be the culprit. There are some changes mentioned at https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/30\/ChangeSet and it is referenced at https:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=92953. Solution: Install the libxcrypt-compat package and the vboxadd.service will start again,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/2019\/05\/fedora-30-virtualbox-and-libxcrypt\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}