On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 01:32:56 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm going round in circles here. I've been running VirtualBox and > BOINC for > years with no problems to speak of. > > Over the last year or more I've experienced mysterious failures in many > programs, some of them real nuisances, and recently I decided to replace my > RAM modules with a single matched set, which seems to have done the trick - > so far! It's required complete recompilation of everything, and throwing > away quite a lot of data that seemed to have been damaged at some time > (hello KMail).
Corruption due to bad memory can't be blamed on the actual software. > Now however I can't get VirtualBox running properly. I've tried the latest > stable version and two testing versions, but at every login via KDM I get a > pop-up notice "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running." > That's without any clients active or trying to be. If I then start > virtualbox- guest-additions I get this: > > # /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start > * Loading kernel modules > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxguest': No such device > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device > * ERROR: virtualbox-guest-additions failed to start This is ONLY for guests, NOT the host. > I assume I'm missing something in my kernel config, but I can't see what. > > linux # grep -i virt .config > # CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is not set > CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y > CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y > # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set > # CONFIG_SND_VIRTUOSO is not set > CONFIG_VIRT_DRIVERS=y > # Virtio drivers > # CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI is not set > # CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO is not set > # CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not set > CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y VirtualBox does NOT use these. 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 > Most of those unset values are for when this kernel is running as a guest of > another OS, so I assume I don't need them when running as the host OS. > Others I can't set because they're hidden until I set the values to be a > guest. > > I can find lots of other people struggling with this and similar problems, > but no fix. > > Any ideas here? Yes, for the host, make sure you load the virtualbox modules: % lsmod | grep vbox vboxpci 12760 0 vboxnetflt 16280 0 vboxnetadp 17808 0 vboxdrv 347894 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci I achieve this with the following: % cat /etc/conf.d/modules | grep vbox modules="vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci" These can be found in " app-emulation/virtualbox-modules " It tells you to do this in the post-emerge: * If you are using sys-apps/openrc, please add "vboxdrv", "vboxnetflt" * and "vboxnetadp" to: * /etc/conf.d/modules -- Joost
