From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 18:08:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E86A826 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08C781AAE for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-249.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7SI8bVQ009090 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:08:37 -0500 Message-ID: <53FF719C.4040905@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:14:52 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Virtualbox questions .... References: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:08:39 -0000 I followed the directions in order, & the 1st thing it did was load the kernel module .... [root@kabini1, /etc, 1:13:41pm] 539 % kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 20 0xffffffff80200000 1611638 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff81812000 a890 geom_stripe.ko 3 1 0xffffffff8181d000 3cb8 amdtemp.ko 4 1 0xffffffff81a12000 121fa ipfw.ko 5 1 0xffffffff81a25000 9fd4 linprocfs.ko 6 1 0xffffffff81a2f000 46f64 linux.ko 7 1 0xffffffff81a76000 3615f vboxdrv.ko [root@kabini1, /etc, 1:13:44pm] 540 % Note last entry .... On 08/28/14 11:34, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM, William A. Mahaffey III > wrote: > >> >> I just pkg-installed virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions >> virtualbox-ose-kmod & whatever they wanted as dependencies. I followed most >> of the directions at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ >> handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html, until I got down to the >> part about changing permissions for |/dev/vboxnetctl .... there is no such >> animal on my box (FBSD 9.3 64-bit, new install) .... > > Because you don't have the kernel module loaded. Assuming you are > diligently following the instructions and you want to permanently change > these permissions, you should follow those instructions instead. > > -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.