From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 18:50:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D554812A for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa11-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa11-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [68.178.252.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AC289F for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from titania.midsummerdream.org ([107.197.157.90]) by p3plsmtpa11-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id wiob1o0011xJNYB01iobxq; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:48:42 -0700 X-Sender: oberon@midsummerdream.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 9.3-RELEASE and Virtualbox Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Rob Rati In-Reply-To: <20140928181821.76adad527982addeac22ceb5@yahoo.es> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:48:33 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <79BD0C3C-FF83-4399-8250-12D3E4DA15CC@midsummerdream.org> References: <57884ABE-A0AB-4EC1-8B94-8998389196CB@midsummerdream.org> <20140928181821.76adad527982addeac22ceb5@yahoo.es> To: Eduardo Morras X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:50:19 -0000 On Sep 28, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:21:18 -0400 > Rob Rati wrote: >=20 >> I've tried upgrading my 9.2-RELEASE system to 9.3-RELEASE a few >> times, but each time I had to revert because starting any Virtualbox >> VMs causes a kernel panic. I found this thread about the issue: >>=20 >> = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2014-August/011767.h= tml >>=20 >> What I don't understand is why it is expected that the repository >> kernel module wouldn't be in sync with the 9.3-RELEASE kernel. Is it >> because the packages are relevant to all 9.x releases and there's no >> way to have a kernel module work with them all? If so, why bother >> having a kmod package at all? >=20 > Did you update /usr/src to 9.3 too? Kernel module needs to use some = /usr/src source code to compile and the resulting kernel module will = work only on that /usr/src version kernel. I don't have any src installed. The virtualbox kernel module I am using = is from the prebuild packages. I've never built the kernel module and = don't have the kernel src installed. >> On a related note, how difficult is it to build the kernel module? I >> have never built it from source in the past and don't even have >> kernel sources installed. I use stock kernels from the releases. >> Are there ways this build can get screwed up if options/packages >> aren't correct? >>=20 >> Rob >=20 > --- --- > Eduardo Morras >=20 Rob