On Wednesday 17 February 2016 20:42:44 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 05:01:51 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > > I only have the following set: > > > # CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is not set > > > CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y > > > CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y > > > > Okay. I've tried that and I still get the pop-up notice "VBoxClient: the > > VirtualBox kernel service is not running." This is with version 4.3.32. > > I'll try later versions and see what happens. Thanks for the info. > > I actually run 4.3.28 myself at the moment.
Right. --->8 > One other thing, are you in the "vboxusers" group? Of course. Also the vboxguest group recently. > My user is and I have the following devices: > > % ls -lsa /dev/vbox* > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxdrv > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 55 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxdrvu > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 54 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxnetctl > > /dev/vboxusb: > total 0 > 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 7 15:24 . > 0 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 6360 Feb 17 18:13 .. > 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 100 Feb 17 18:13 001 > > What do you get for the following: > > % ls -lsa /dev/vbox* > % lsmod | grep vbox # ls -lsa /dev/vbox* 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 58 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxdrv 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 57 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxdrvu 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxnetctl /dev/vboxusb: total 0 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 17 16:54 . 0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 3.9K Feb 18 09:40 .. 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 Feb 18 09:40 002 # ls -lsa /dev/vboxusb/002 total 0 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 Feb 18 09:40 . 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 17 16:54 .. 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 130 Feb 17 16:54 003 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 133 Feb 18 09:40 006 # lsmod | grep vbox vboxpci 13106 0 vboxnetflt 16882 0 vboxnetadp 17862 0 vboxdrv 331090 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci I still can't shake the idea that I don't have my kernel set up right. Do I need anything particular in control groups, or name spaces, or anything? -- Rgds Peter
