On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:09:13 -0700 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I just got around to trying my Virtualbox VMs under the new 3.0.0 > kernel and they aren't working. It says vboxdrv is not set up. I drop > back to 2.6.39 and they run fine. Please note I really mean only the > VMs won't start. The Vbox GUI runs fine but then cannot start the VMs. > > I used make oldconfig to get 3.0.0 working so maybe that caused the > problem but I don't yet see what's wrong looking at the config files. > > Most likely this is some problem caused by the new numbering but I > Googled around looking for a solution and didn't find one. Has anyone > else here checked Virtualbox under the new kernel? > > Note that VMWare seems to be running fine under 3.0.0, only > Virtualbox is failing. > > Thanks, > Mark > You know that these Modules have to be compiled against the running kernel? A re-emerge should do: emerge -1av virtualbox-modules Almost forgot: youd also have to reload these modules via modprobe (or rebooting *hides*)
