Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:39:45 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK02QjVwCMPpFt4jftPTqF7gb8CoRNvy8fRm6suPFD8t4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <j72b1r$j3d$1@hairball.ziemba.us> References: <j72b1r$j3d$1@hairball.ziemba.us>
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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
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