Scott Bennett wrote: > For the first time so far, I managed to get emulators/virtualbox to > compile and install from ports a few hours ago. Following the pkg-messages, > I attempted to "kldload vboxdrv" or whatever it was called, which resulted > in an immediate crash and automatic system reboot. :-(
This is a known problem and documented on the wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > However, I had already added > > vboxdrv_load="YES" > vboxnetflt_load="YES" > > to /boot/loader.conf and so was expecting it to fail, but it didn't. I even > started up VirtualBox and looked at a couple of things, then looked around > in it for a few minutes. Aside from the fact that the help subsystem was > MIA, I didn't notice anything untoward. > Except for the recurring console messages, which began during system > startup and have continued ever since. Here's what a few of them look > like. > > Oct 28 17:00:00 hellas newsyslog[1939]: logfile turned over due to size>100K > Oct 28 17:02:03 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=pts > ppDev=0xe84bea14 > Oct 28 17:02:36 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=input > ppDev=0xe84e2948 > Oct 28 17:02:36 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=dsp > ppDev=0xe84e2948 Do you have build VirtualBox with debug option? Beat _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
