Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:18:21 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 9.3-RELEASE and Virtualbox Message-ID: <20140928181821.76adad527982addeac22ceb5@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <57884ABE-A0AB-4EC1-8B94-8998389196CB@midsummerdream.org> References: <57884ABE-A0AB-4EC1-8B94-8998389196CB@midsummerdream.org>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:21:18 -0400 Rob Rati <lists@midsummerdream.org> wrote: > I've tried upgrading my 9.2-RELEASE system to 9.3-RELEASE a few > times, but each time I had to revert because starting any Virtualbox > VMs causes a kernel panic. I found this thread about the issue: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2014-August/011767.html > > What I don't understand is why it is expected that the repository > kernel module wouldn't be in sync with the 9.3-RELEASE kernel. Is it > because the packages are relevant to all 9.x releases and there's no > way to have a kernel module work with them all? If so, why bother > having a kmod package at all? Did you update /usr/src to 9.3 too? Kernel module needs to use some /usr/src source code to compile and the resulting kernel module will work only on that /usr/src version kernel. > On a related note, how difficult is it to build the kernel module? I > have never built it from source in the past and don't even have > kernel sources installed. I use stock kernels from the releases. > Are there ways this build can get screwed up if options/packages > aren't correct? > > Rob --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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