From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 19:39:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1190D1065670 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:39:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-dy0-f54.google.com (mail-dy0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9796C8FC15 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dyj4 with SMTP id 4so43499dyj.13 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=tOVGrjVcoeJL+ufYGoVgaBXG3KH2Qb2Ym7yW1tfUBvg=; b=g0OLFRf87RyE8TgN0Qt8FMAm7m+r36JIZrx0MuIO22fmeXmQ0draoVkrcZGA+ShM0k mX/zqVgmaX/tSkIbAzQdxiB3G93sjkLpW5FQdWixNNGLJL4iGvWEJuPns72fhdm9vCFm n6GIDkyuezyfTepa53Vpmq00qvgWVSolDSJjg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.76.11 with SMTP id a11mr773898fak.1.1318448385390; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.124.197 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:39:45 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:39:47 -0000 On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM, G. Paul Ziemba < pz-freebsd-virtualization@ziemba.us> wrote: > Hello wise ones, > > I have the recent (from a few days ago) virtualbox-ose and > virtualbox-ose-kmod ports installed. Other ports are mostly > from Jan, 2011. With vboxdrv.ko loaded, /dev/vboxdrv does not > seem to be created and I don't know why. > > % kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 34 0xc0400000 c4fc74 kernel > 2 2 0xc1050000 2fc38 linux.ko > 3 1 0xc1080000 1c420 snd_hda.ko > 4 1 0xc109d000 9970 aio.ko > 6 1 0xc73ce000 8000 linprocfs.ko > 7 1 0xc78d1000 10000 ipfw.ko > 8 1 0xc7bf9000 21000 kqemu.ko > 9 1 0xc7cc2000 2000 blank_saver.ko > 10 1 0xc7ee2000 68000 radeon.ko > 11 1 0xc7f4a000 14000 drm.ko > 12 1 0xc92fd000 b000 netgraph.ko > 13 1 0xcbbc9000 2e000 vboxdrv.ko > % ls /dev/vboxdrv > ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory > % > > I originally had a RELENG_8 kernel and userland from Jan, 2011 on > this host, but I csup-ed this morning (tag=RELENG_8) and built/ > installed new kernel and userland. I also rebuilt virtualbox-ose > and virtualbox-ose-kmod afterwards. > > There seems to be some logging facility in the vboxdrv code, but I > do not understand how to enable it or where to look for the output. > > Thanks for any suggestions! > On a perfectly functioning vbox host, I don't have it either: galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory but I do have: galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv* /dev/vboxdrv0 -- Adam Vande More