From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: waltdnes@waltdnes.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for virtualbox?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:10:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090927141047.481204f1@osage.osagesoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090927180102.GA6162@waltdnes.org>
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.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-27 13:28 [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox? Walter Dnes
2009-09-27 15:15 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-09-27 18:01 ` Walter Dnes
2009-09-27 18:06 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-27 18:09 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-27 18:10 ` David Relson [this message]
2009-09-27 18:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-27 18:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2009-09-27 18:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-27 19:02 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-09-29 23:40 ` Walter Dnes
2009-09-30 15:03 ` Paul Hartman
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