Hi!
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:16:20AM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
> There are other use-cases where this warning is useless, like running
> virtualbox inside openvz container :) /usr/bin/VirtualBox binary is a
> shell script that you can easy modify to avoid this warning. That said I
> don't think it's worth to have such patch in portage tree - just apply
> it locally.
Why is that? How such patch may harm anything?
--- /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh.old 2013-09-14 00:45:13.873137602 +0300
+++ /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh 2013-09-14 00:45:17.553137565 +0300
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
if [ "$1" = "shutdown" ]; then
SHUTDOWN="true"
-elif ! lsmod|grep -q vboxdrv; then
+elif [ -r /proc/modules ] && ! lsmod|grep -q vboxdrv; then
cat << EOF
WARNING: The VirtualBox kernel modules are not loaded.
Please load all the needed kernel modules by:
--
WBR, Alex.
