On 07/24/11 22:02, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Wagener<st...@gmx.net> wrote:
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*)
Actually, I think I just figured it out. The new way of loading
modules re Baselayout/OpenRC I think requires that we tell it what
kernel version we're loading the modules for. I'm on the wrong machine
right now but this machine has this sort of stuff in
/etc/conf.d/modules:
k2 ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/modules
# You can define a list modules for a specific kernel version,
# a released kernel version, a main kernel version or just a list.
#modules_2_6_23_gentoo_r5="ieee1394 ohci1394"
#modules_2_6_23="tun ieee1394"
#modules_2_6="tun"
#modules="ohci1394"
I'm guessing I need to modify this file to tell it to load the vbox
modules for 3_0 kernels....
Would you concur?
Cheers,
Mark
Yes, I believe that would be your issue. I just handled that when I
first moved over to openrc that i just added:
modules="vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt" without even thinking
out/dealing with kernel versions.
Give it a whirl and see if it works after you reload 'em.
