On Monday 29 January 2007 18:38, Ulrich Gemkow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Monday 29 January 2007, David Baron wrote:
> > 1. Installation:
> >
> > The startup script /etc/init.d/VirtualBox requires a "major" number
> > from /proc/devices. It is not there and it is not possible to manually
> > insert one. How does on set this up or does one simply modify the script
> > and assign a major number (which one)?
>
> This is a flaw in the current startup script. The driver registers its
> device as a misc device, so the _minor_ can be retrieved from /proc/misc
> and the major is always 10 (for the misc devices).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ulrich

I changed the startup script to set maj=10 and go from there. Works.

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