Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Nicolai Beuermann did opine thusly:
> Hi, > after updating to virtualbox-4.0.8 I cannot start a vm anymore. > > The following ebuilds are installed: > app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8 > app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.0.8 > app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.0.8 > app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.8 > > The logs mention that symlinks are not permitted. /usr/lib64 is a > symlink to /usr/lib on my system. Switch it to be the other way round which is how it should be. It works perfectly here with the exact same packages: $ ls -al /usr/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Oct 27 2010 lib -> lib64 The log entry tells you the software will not accept your configuration. > > / filesystem is ext4 on solid-state-drive mounted with default options. > > lsmod: > vboxnetadp 4502 0 > vboxnetflt 14541 0 > vboxdrv 1745860 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt > > By the way stable virtualbox-3.2.12-r4 is able to run the vm. > > cat VBox.log > 00:00:00.676 VirtualBox 4.0.8-Gentoo r71778 linux.amd64 (May 29 2011 > 16:47:41) release log > 00:00:00.676 Log opened 2011-05-29T17:02:39.312737000Z > 00:00:00.676 OS Product: Linux > 00:00:00.676 OS Release: 2.6.38-gentoo-r6-28.05.2011-01 > 00:00:00.676 OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 28 15:37:06 CEST 2011 > 00:00:00.676 DMI Product Name: MacPro1,1 > 00:00:00.676 DMI Product Version: 1.0 > 00:00:00.677 Host RAM: 9997MB RAM, available: 8732MB > 00:00:00.677 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox > 00:00:00.677 Process ID: 5576 > 00:00:00.677 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE) > 00:00:00.696 pdmR3LoadR0U: pszName="VMMR0.r0" > rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED szErr="Symlinks are not > permitted: '/usr/lib64'" > 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: > /var/tmp/portage/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8/work/VirtualBox-4.0 > .8_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(583) int vmR3CreateU(UVM*, uint32_t, int > (*)(VM*, void*), void*); > rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED > 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: Failed to load VMMR0.r0 > 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: > /var/tmp/portage/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.0.8/work/VirtualBox-4.0 > .8_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VM.cpp(354) int VMR3Create(uint32_t, const > VMM2USERMETHODS*, void (*)(VM*, void*, int, const char*, unsigned int, > const char*, const char*, > __va_list_tag*), void*, int (*)(VM*, void*), void*, VM**); > rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED > 00:00:00.696 VMSetError: Unknown error creating VM > 00:00:00.698 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) > aIID={515e8e8d-f932-4d8e-9f32-79a52aead882} aComponent={Console} > aText={Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED). > 00:00:00.698 Unknown error creating VM > (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED)}, preserve=false > 00:00:00.707 Power up failed > (vrc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED, rc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE > (0X80004005)) > 00:00:00.725 Using XKB for keycode to scan code conversion > > > Please help. I don't have an idea. > > Nico -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com