From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 29 09:07:12 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 09DB8106566B for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from marvin.chruetertee.ch (marvin.chruetertee.ch [217.150.245.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CB68FC1F for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from daedalus.network.local (cafe.interxion.wlan.hotspot.nexellent.net [217.147.222.218]) (authenticated bits=0) by marvin.chruetertee.ch (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9T8uoxM085649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:51 GMT (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4AE958E8.4010106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:57:12 +0100 From: Beat Gaetzi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090821) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Bennett References: <200910290816.n9T8GHwR015523@mp.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200910290816.n9T8GHwR015523@mp.cs.niu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox kernel module messages 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: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:12 -0000 Scott Bennett wrote: > For the first time so far, I managed to get emulators/virtualbox to > compile and install from ports a few hours ago. Following the pkg-messages, > I attempted to "kldload vboxdrv" or whatever it was called, which resulted > in an immediate crash and automatic system reboot. :-( This is a known problem and documented on the wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > However, I had already added > > vboxdrv_load="YES" > vboxnetflt_load="YES" > > to /boot/loader.conf and so was expecting it to fail, but it didn't. I even > started up VirtualBox and looked at a couple of things, then looked around > in it for a few minutes. Aside from the fact that the help subsystem was > MIA, I didn't notice anything untoward. > Except for the recurring console messages, which began during system > startup and have continued ever since. Here's what a few of them look > like. > > Oct 28 17:00:00 hellas newsyslog[1939]: logfile turned over due to size>100K > Oct 28 17:02:03 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=pts ppDev=0xe84bea14 > Oct 28 17:02:36 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=input ppDev=0xe84e2948 > Oct 28 17:02:36 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=dsp ppDev=0xe84e2948 Do you have build VirtualBox with debug option? Beat