From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 21:32:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F9610656C6 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:32:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B440C8FC19 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5609 invoked by uid 399); 22 Dec 2009 21:32:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 22 Dec 2009 21:32:45 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B313B01.1040900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:32:49 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leslie Jensen References: <4B2F60BA.7010002@bsdforen.de> <4B2FF8A0.8080009@eskk.nu> <4B312A6D.4040907@FreeBSD.org> <4B31378D.2010801@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <4B31378D.2010801@eskk.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:32:47 -0000 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > On 2009-12-22 21:22, Doug Barton wrote: >> The appropriate way to do this is to add them to /boot/loader.conf, >> like this: >> >> vboxdrv_load="yes" >> vboxnetflt_load="yes" >> vboxnetadp_load="yes" >> >> You could also write a new-style rc.d script to do this fairly easily, >> see >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html >> >> for more information. There are also existing ports that use rc.d to >> load kernel modules, although none of the names come to mind off hand. >> >> >> Doug >> > Thanks for your answer. > > I did test to load the modules as you suggest. They do load but > virtualbox produces an error when starting a virtual machine. If what you're saying is that you tried loading the modules in /boot/loader.conf and that produced an error, then you need to start a NEW thread on this list and describe what you did, and what the results are in detail. This method worked fine for me in 9-current, so if it's not working for you then we need to find out why. > I found information in the forums suggesting that one could load the > modules via a script i /etc/rc.d/. But with 8.0 that did not work. Do you understand why it didn't work? Do you understand that my suggestion is different than the one you received on the forum? > I've tried to load vboxdrv and vboxnetflt via loader.conf and then load > vboxnetadp manually before starting virtualbox. That also produces the > error when starting a VM. That sounds like a deeper issue to me that has nothing to do with HOW you load them. Once again, you need to start a NEW thread to try and diagnose the problem you're having. > For now I load the modules manually with a script that also starts > virtualbox. If you have an actual solution that works then you should include that information in the new thread you're going to create. :) Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/