From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 25 01:02:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4A3106568B for ; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:02:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rloefgren@forethought.net) Received: from mzpi5.forethought.net (mzpi5.forethought.net [216.241.36.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C528FC14 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 216-241-45-95.static.forethought.net ([216.241.45.95] helo=auden.jmla.com) by mz3.forethought.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1lXc-0000R2-8D; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:40:40 -0600 Message-ID: <4AE349A6.90807@forethought.net> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:38:30 -0600 From: Reed Loefgren User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090906) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Barber References: <4AE329EE.5030402@rawbw.com> <4ad871310910241117o540bf959pd94724c67c9f49d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310910241117o540bf959pd94724c67c9f49d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: yuri@rawbw.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:02:53 -0000 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Yuri wrote: > >> I am tryingto run Windows under FreeBSD. >> >> When I run: >> cat /dev/ad1s1 | VBoxManage stdin OutPutFile.vdi 21474836480 >> on 80-RC2 I get this output: >> ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! >> ERROR: code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info >> not available) >> Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start. >> >> No processes with name VirtualBox are running. >> >> What could be the problem? >> > > Do you have the vboxdrv.ko module loaded? > > > I'll chime in here because I just de-installed virtualbox so it's fresh in mind. I had problems when I tried to run virtualbox after loading the vboxdrvr.ko manually while the machine was running. Maybe it crashed the machine, can't remember. After rebooting though, with the modules in /boot/modules/ and the modules having been loaded at boot time things worked great. So for me it was imperative that the module loaded at boot and not after the machine was fully up if I wanted virtualbox to run. (I de-installed because, after running opensolaris a few weeks, the novelty of virtual machines has worn off.) HTH sa