Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:48:33 -0400 From: Rob Rati <lists@midsummerdream.org> To: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 9.3-RELEASE and Virtualbox Message-ID: <79BD0C3C-FF83-4399-8250-12D3E4DA15CC@midsummerdream.org> In-Reply-To: <20140928181821.76adad527982addeac22ceb5@yahoo.es> References: <57884ABE-A0AB-4EC1-8B94-8998389196CB@midsummerdream.org> <20140928181821.76adad527982addeac22ceb5@yahoo.es>
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On Sep 28, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:21:18 -0400 > Rob Rati <lists@midsummerdream.org> wrote: >=20 >> 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: >>=20 >> = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2014-August/011767.h= tml >>=20 >> 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? >=20 > 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. I don't have any src installed. The virtualbox kernel module I am using = is from the prebuild packages. I've never built the kernel module and = don't have the kernel src installed. >> 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? >>=20 >> Rob >=20 > --- --- > Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> >=20 Rob
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