Indeed! I have built the port and it's now working. It's a pain building
as you need kernel source installed and it has lots of dependencies
As you say, it's not necessary to build virtualbox-ose to fix it.
However, I did need to build that in order to fix
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270900 to get USB
working. That's even more of a pain as it depends on lots more things
including llvm14. Again, I now have it all working including the USB
pass-through. I'll ask on the mailing list for somebody to commit the
(one line) fix for that bug.
Thanks again, Greg.
Graham
On 19/07/2024 1:37 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 19 July 2024 at 13:23:46 +1000, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
Hello all,
I'm running FredBSD 14.1 amd64 with a GENERIC kernel. I've installed
VirtualBox from packages. But I can't load any of its kmod modules. When I
try, I get a message:
# kldload vboxdrv
kldload: can't load vboxdrv: module already loaded or in kernel
#
However, neither of those things is true:
# kldstat -v|grep -i virtualbox
#
Yes. It lies. It's VB's inimitable way of saying "you have the wrong
module version for this kernel". It should be sufficient to rebuild
the virtualbox-ose-kmod port. Don't install the package, because it
doesn't know what kernel you have.
I also rebuilt virtualbox-ose, but that's quite a pain and I don't
think it's necessary. See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jun2024.php?subtitle=Still%20more%20VirtualBox%20fun&article=D-20240630-002403#D-20240630-002403
for more details.
When you're done, 'kldload vboxnetadp' should be enough. That will
load the other modules.
Greg
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