On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Michael Meskes wrote: > This is a known problem shared with quite some other pieces of software. > The kernel interface is not 64 bit clean. I'm running a similar setup > albeit with sid instead of etch, but also with a 64bit kernel and 32bit > userland. My workaround is to have a 64bit chroot available and run > virtualbox inside the changeroot.
Can it be documented somewhere in the mean time? Or could the application detect it and give a more meaningful error message? Do you have an pointer to the relevant upstream bug report that you could use as "forwarded" info instead of the useless "forwarded to [email protected]" ? For the record, I got bitten by this this morning and it resulted in the following kernel message: [59624.962144] ioctl32(VirtualBox:8960): Unknown cmd fd(32) cmd(c0305601){t:'V';sz:48} arg(ff937254) on /dev/vboxdrv The message displayed by VirtualBox was the same as the submitter but of course, everything is in sync (i386 arch here, but amd64 kernel): ii virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.27-1-amd64 2.1.0-dfsg-2+2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12516 ii virtualbox-ose 2.1.0-dfsg-2 And the loaded kernel driver is the right version too: [59616.125085] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently... [59616.125095] vboxdrv: Successfully done. [59616.125098] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores. [59616.125210] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa046b900 [59616.125246] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x426 offMax=0x1332 [59616.125343] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. [59616.125352] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 2.1.0_OSE (interface 0x000a0008). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
