From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for virtualbox?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:09:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0700a81abc3ae3a0dfe6452e38041a0@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090927180102.GA6162@waltdnes.org>
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:01:02 -0400, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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.
The attached output doesn't seem to have anything related to vboxdrv at
all.
In any case, did you check that you are compiling the driver against the
right kernel? Look at the output of uname -r, and make sure that the
symlink /usr/src/linux points to the current kernel version, then recompile
the drivers package.
--
Jesús Guerrero
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 18:10 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 [this message]
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
2009-09-29 23:40 ` Walter Dnes
2009-09-30 15:03 ` Paul Hartman
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