From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 20:47:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 491C8987 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (mx.catwhisker.org [198.144.209.73]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 004997B0 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0JKljWZ011043; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@albert.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t0JKlj4c011042; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:47:45 -0800 From: David Wolfskill To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VirtualBox whines "(VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED)." Message-ID: <20150119204745.GL1059@albert.catwhisker.org> Reply-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:47:54 -0000 --J2pR2RtFp0tAjF3C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Please include me in responses; I've set Reply-To appropriately. dhw] I am trying (for the first time) to get VirtualBox to work. And when I select "Start" (using an image from a colleague who has run it successfully), I get a "VirtualBox - Error" pop-up window: Failed to open a session for the virtual machines [Vmachine name here] Failed to loaf VMMRO.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED). Details Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: Console Interface: IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6} Now, I do make some use of symlinks: I'm running FreeBSD stable/10, i386. And I am strictly using UFS2 with soft updates (but no journaling), and I have the system set up to be bootable fromn any of the 4 slices available via MBR: localhost(10.1-S)[2] gpart show =3D> 63 976773105 ada0 MBR (466G) 63 16777215 1 freebsd [active] (8.0G) 16777278 16777215 2 freebsd (8.0G) 33554493 16777215 3 freebsd (8.0G) 50331708 926441460 4 freebsd (442G) =3D> 0 16777215 ada0s1 BSD (8.0G) 0 4194304 1 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194304 12582911 4 freebsd-ufs (6.0G) =3D> 0 16777215 ada0s2 BSD (8.0G) 0 4194304 1 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194304 12582911 4 freebsd-ufs (6.0G) =3D> 0 16777215 ada0s3 BSD (8.0G) 0 4194304 1 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194304 12582911 4 freebsd-ufs (6.0G) =3D> 0 926441460 ada0s4 BSD (442G) 0 4194304 1 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194304 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 20971520 16777216 - free - (8.0G) 37748736 12582912 4 freebsd-ufs (6.0G) 50331648 20971520 5 freebsd-ufs (10G) 71303168 201326592 6 freebsd-ufs (96G) 272629760 268435456 7 freebsd-ufs (128G) 541065216 385376244 8 freebsd-ufs (184G) localhost(10.1-S)[3]=20 And: localhost(10.1-S)[3] df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ada0s1a 1.9G 1.2G 581M 68% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev tmpfs 2.0G 688K 2.0G 0% /tmp /dev/ada0s1d 5.8G 3.2G 2.1G 61% /usr /dev/ada0s4e 9.7G 3.2G 5.7G 36% /var /dev/ada0s4f 93G 41G 45G 48% /repo /dev/ada0s4g 124G 68G 46G 59% /common fdescfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev/fd procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc localhost(10.1-S)[4]=20 Further: localhost(10.1-S)[4] ls -l /usr total 76 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Sep 27 2010 X11R6 -> /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Jan 19 05:13 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 28 2010 compat drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 19 05:12 games drwxr-xr-x 53 root wheel 6144 Jan 19 05:12 include drwxr-xr-x 53 root wheel 6144 Jan 18 05:28 include.old drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 13312 Jan 19 05:13 lib drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Sep 8 2013 lib32 drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Jul 25 2013 libdata drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1536 Jan 19 05:13 libexec lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Sep 11 03:59 local -> /common/local lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Oct 26 20:01 obj -> /common/S1/obj lrwxr-xr-x 1 cvsupin wheel 13 Sep 27 2010 ports -> /common/ports drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 5120 Jan 19 05:13 sbin drwxr-xr-x 32 root wheel 512 Jan 19 05:11 share drwxr-xr-x 24 david wheel 1024 Jan 3 04:21 src localhost(10.1-S)[5]=20 (I note I've been setting up FreeeBSD machines this way since ... 1998.) So: what must I do in order for VirtualBox to actually work? Thanks! Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Those who murder in the name of God or prophet are blasphemous cowards. 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