Issue with failed to get display change request

First, see here for general VirtualBox troubleshooting and a lot of known issues:

http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/wiki/VirtualBox/Troubleshooting

But to your point, this might be useful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/fg2yim/virtualbox_error_0x80004005/

I run void linux as guest in virtualbox and it worked for me without problems until today. Now my guest desktop gets spammed with notifications like:

VBoxClient: Failure waiting for event, rc=VERR_INVALID_HANDLE
VBoxClient: Failed to get display change request, rc=VERR_INVALID_HANDLE
VBoxClient: VbgIR3InitUser failed: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED

I suppose this has to do with a kernel update from yesterday. Maybe this is somehow related to your problem?

Later they say:

I could solve my virtualbox guest problems by installing linux-headers and virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms with xbps. The latter really fixed everything. Maybe in your case you could try installing virtualbox-ose-dkms. Hope this helps if you haven’t found a solution already.

Since a few known problems relate to not having linux-headers installed, maybe it is related.

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