From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MryCY-0002sK-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:10:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 476A0E0616; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm5.telefonica.net (impaqm5.telefonica.net [213.4.129.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6A9E0616 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm5.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id ltgg1c00G2iL0W23Ru9r3z; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:09:51 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id lu6t1c00i3XLmEe1ku6vlz; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:06:57 +0200 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:09:46 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for =?UTF-8?Q?virtualbox=3F?= In-Reply-To: <20090927180102.GA6162@waltdnes.org> References: <20090927132803.GA5562@waltdnes.org> <20090927180102.GA6162@waltdnes.org> Message-ID: X-Sender: i92guboj@terra.es User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7eeb55bb-0f9d-4384-99dc-7f64fb40d710 X-Archives-Hash: bc09b44c86fc3f7ec2cfe968fb4a5c12 On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:01:02 -0400, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:15:46AM -0700, walt wrote >=20 >> I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried buildin= g >> the portage version. >=20 > As I mentioned, I'm using Sun's install because the portage install > dies. >=20 >> What problem do you see? >=20 > At bootup I get... > * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ... > * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why >=20 > 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.=20 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 recompi= le the drivers package. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero