On 03/29/2011 09:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: [snip] >> >> A couple of questions: >> >> 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage >> which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and >> again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my >> drive D & E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I >> might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized. >> >> 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on >> Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running >> 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though. >> >> Good luck, >> Mark > > I am running VB on a gentoo laptop; everything is mounted. I have not > had any problems for a long time. I sync'ed portage a couple of weeks > ago and the VB worked with my virtual win7 machine without problems. > > I am using 2.6.36-gentoo-r5. I have been searching the web and the VB > forum pages but no luck yet. In the meantime I re-emerged VB without the > pulseaudio USE flag and copied a working backup of .VirtualBox/ to my > home directory; still get the same message (inaccessible). I will try an > older backup later. > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor >
I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting that the VM got corrupted when VB was emerged with the pulseaudio USE flag. -- Valmor > > [snip]
