From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 16:21:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 28B168C9 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm6-vm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.119]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 656928F6 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:21:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s2048; t=1411921070; bh=O+/BeaeKVa/ZXuEOVqzUY86SgKkWseDYLAXXqWLe17Q=; h=Received:Received:Received:DKIM-Signature:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Disposition-Notification-To:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject; b=ai41Ccf0phYDDeh4BD2e3kaH0Z7Ib7LRfv2hWq9HQjNs5TX/F791xlszUh7p48cNBfoX0JAvg9r2/Y+YH5m85Flm0Ojnn1LkDwqOd8KCk8dLbGzZLmFb8HL/EyTd6etQAPmaKoGrxIWRseepmT8WvumBYyNM956ntYMFjOcimThqSZnZOyJAe4+ps+rHO9ghEl6ydCJyLhH3BWvixHEoEwqo6GaTZEXGEO2KF7znhVnNRL2d0Zdmkof5ntRJ+t5Hd1IF2ylRXVtoox13ZCqBIja/PkXedGdUPl/HkyCMiLKTUDVwsD0JiXgSDrfbZQgCTQ1Luck+qSu9xYJDKUvsMw== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s2048; d=yahoo.es; b=DbTFEYlWWJzup3971yr/qbOT3ZK9kjV/vB8azeHpSkMgAyaf56QlQJlOPWy0MM5E3c4IsPVUHN7zodmNdWiRTDpQ/5V4GyBt9hXJHgfnm0MtjQy3B7xKvHTuBeZxPcc0VbdVn56PwRiwtCRdIIkuyfW8z9+6VlCpkJX8KQ7f4kGAFgxfAXtTWz+WiVQCcSFjiAnjoqtn/kK/RnQNOggubtqDtfB2H8t4L+Uhni2m71y9MpISginrSqmzSn7EW3majst8Aa6rR4TilNO1Mxo7k/H+f5iP96VbEyy06aqJtvZ0hVqn9bV5EfTqkOyFNKZmXtjPevhxRri2eKWQ2Jkq0g==; Received: from [212.82.98.48] by nm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Sep 2014 16:17:50 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.99] by tm1.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Sep 2014 16:17:50 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp136.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Sep 2014 16:17:50 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s1024; t=1411921070; bh=O+/BeaeKVa/ZXuEOVqzUY86SgKkWseDYLAXXqWLe17Q=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Disposition-Notification-To:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=zNtwnjTCBrYBqB9PwhWdS/dH9V2DQLJGrLZq+rqyUjHBWsEbc+RcShV8nmCUBn4XshNJna3xIbkIrLkgbehZIxsZ9J0Xy6lNdNmVH2eB5pRspgVQ8GFEbNcStAKRwNexeZyuZiKxkNE7CRu7BehUBu9aEyZg9phG4n63EJv+Zqc= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 15055.45656.bm@smtp136.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 0ZM81CYVM1mRY9ayYrOwf.qm1dhKnjTWIB8gfCJzRcUmQtz FLPoajcYVMtdK.0MZc1gjlprdZFJG6dd8UCXLtm3sNAIgXb5IoMGk8zjJO0v cUTrakBkAKMlKL7Jb8La3niPIfuR3kMCeDNjyhRTW21sxrWGyRbj0bMBygwB UjYX.FHHEW1cOnLgkr6oonYEXYAEknIsUCeNuh1XF..x4osyaTRQJyzDEPV4 MXCH7aI5es5sSNHsdGTzoFaugjFZtcL4oOCybVG5RPfDVb0BeXKc2E1oHvyY UDN_5NKRyHppdgMglzs9Oa.KCKdwm_CD0g8tniZlU190nxhszaNHOUY3R4Ak MGOhmxYRuT2k4VwAP4Kuc5yD.gwj9BqJ5HiaCBE0W5zaBhE6nw14hbW3j3VG AuIIwtYEs.ecnCINQVs1I7TDyWFJrwgWHTTgVzBxw4My_D4hHGx0urVYMlGs kwdigD8RLqoFsiwsKBqH8JVfhoml3DrfHmp2Dq9YiKDmPLTzxSt5YsHk81yH niFFbd5Z4i9lNIRMoDZdgn5DntYa0vHx3QfMbhNZCSaFcAFkE2TeMdnWtdx1 43aKuEYUZ9SO5fybmJILSUV3eHUFUkM5e3BIYGY75NPcDp.Mv_8YTr0udmvZ wAP_V2vVITw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:18:21 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:21:17 -0000 On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:21:18 -0400 Rob Rati 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