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From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:02:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc43a74efda28d9ba801cf4b396caee3@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090927185145.GA5320@waltdnes.org>

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:51:45 -0400, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> 
>   I apologize for wasting everybody's time.  I didn't RTFM thoroughly
> enough.  Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new
> kernel, you have to "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup".  The result is...
> 
> [d530][root][~] /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>  * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module ...
>  * [ ok ] * Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module ...
>  * [ ok ] * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...
> 
> [d530][root][~]
> 
> ...and on rebooting, I get...
> 
> * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...                         * [ ok ]
> 
>   While I'm at it, here's what I have in my .config regarding KVM. 
Since
> I don't use KVM, can I turn off all the options here without affecting
> virtualbox?
> 
> # CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW is not set
> CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y
> CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y
> CONFIG_KVM=y
> CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=y
> # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set
> # CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set
> # CONFIG_LGUEST is not set
> # CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI is not set
> # CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON is not set
> # CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF is not set

kvm and virtualbox are not related, you can turn those on if you don't
need kvm. Virtualbox will continue working.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-27 19:52 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
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 [this message]
2009-09-29 23:40 ` Walter Dnes
2009-09-30 15:03   ` Paul Hartman

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