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Date:      Fri, 1 May 2020 17:16:22 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/vboxnetctl not existing
Message-ID:  <B943609D-6E7A-4FAC-936C-881E5B3A9B7A@kukulies.org>
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Ah, sorry. The installation manual isn’t clear about this. You have to reboot the machine so that it sees vboxnet_enable.
After the reboot the device is there.

—
Christoph


> Am 01.05.2020 um 16:58 schrieb Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>:
> 
> I now skipped building VirtualBox  from the ports. Instead I installed the packages I was advised here.
> 
> Following the installation instructions in the FreeBSD handbook chapter 21.6.1, it says one should do a
> 
> 
> chown root:vboxusers /dev/vboxnetctl
> chmod 0660 /dev/vboxnetctl
> 
> /dev/vboxnetctl does not exist.
> 
> 
> —
> Christoph
> 
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