VirtualBox in 9.3-RELEASE

[Antoine Delvaux]

Le 18 août 2014 à 06:27, Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> a écrit :

> Antoine Delvaux <antoine at delvaux.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been using VirtualBox for 2 years under 9.1 and 9.2 and it was working pretty well.  About a week ago I upgraded to 9.3-RELEASE and since then VirtualBox refuses to run and crashes my server as soon as I start a VM.
>> 
>> I'm using version 4.3.12 coming from the pkg repository.  All my packages are up to date.  I'm unable to find any information about the crash I face as my server/host is rebooting a few seconds after I try to launch any VM.
> 
> Are you also using virtualbox-ose-kmod from the pkg repository? If so,
> try building the port for that (you can still use pkg for
> virtualbox-ose). At least that fixed the same problem for me - and I
> guess it is obvious in hindsight that the repository build of the kernel
> module won't be in sync with the RELEASE kernel.

Thanks, that solved it indeed!

I had tried compiling the modules a few days ago, but my kernel source files were still the ones from 9.2 I guess.  Mixing binary and locally compiled packages requires a bit more maintenance.

Antoine.