From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 21:25:01 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 15A7F1065673 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pz-freebsd-virtualization@ziemba.us) Received: from ziemba.us (osmtp.ziemba.us [208.106.105.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4E08FC14 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hairball.ziemba.us (localhost.ziemba.us [127.0.0.1]) by hairball.ziemba.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p9BL4xKw019600 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pz-freebsd-virtualization@ziemba.us) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hairball.ziemba.us (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p9BL4xLC019599 for freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pz-freebsd-virtualization@ziemba.us) X-Authentication-Warning: hairball.ziemba.us: mailnull set sender to pz-freebsd-virtualization@ziemba.us using -f Received: (from news@localhost) by hairball.ziemba.us (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p9BL4xaW019566 for treehouse-mail-freebsd-virtualization@hairball.treehouse.napa.ca.us; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news) From: "G. Paul Ziemba" To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-id: Errors-to: "G. Paul Ziemba" Subject: vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:25:01 -0000 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! ~!paul -- G. Paul Ziemba FreeBSD unix: 2:01PM up 1:36, 6 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.36, 0.38