On Sonntag 27 September 2009, David Relson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:01:02 -0400
> 
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:15:46AM -0700, walt wrote
> >
> > > I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried
> > > building the portage version.
> >
> >   As I mentioned, I'm using Sun's install because the portage install
> > dies.
> >
> > > What problem do you see?
> >
> >   At bootup I get...
> >  * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...
> >  * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
> >
> >   I'm attaching dmesg output in the hope that someone can figure this
> > out.
> 
> Do you have vboxdrv in your kernel?  My kernel has the module build,
> as evidenced by command 'locate vboxdrv' displaying:
> 
> /lib64/modules/2.6.28-gentoo-r5-xfs/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> 
> I'm don't know which kernel option creates vboxdrv, but google surely
> knows :->
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
> 

none does. You have to emerge the vbox driver.



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