Virtualbox questions ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Thu Aug 28 18:26:11 UTC 2014


On 08/28/14 13:21, Paul Kraus wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2014, at 14:14, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
>> I followed the directions in order, & the 1st thing it did was load the kernel module ....
>>
>>
>> [root at 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 at kabini1, /etc, 1:13:44pm] 540 %
>>
>> Note last entry ….
> IIRC, there are at least 2 kernel modules. One for the VM itself and the other for the network stack for the VM. I would try rebooting and see if it loads after a reboot.
>
> [pkraus at host2 ~]$ cat /etc/rc.conf
> hostname="host2”
> <snip>
> vboxnet_enable="YES"
> [pkraus at host2 ~]$ kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>   1   19 0xffffffff80200000 1323408  kernel
>   2    1 0xffffffff81524000 2084f8   zfs.ko
>   3    2 0xffffffff8172d000 5c68     opensolaris.ko
>   4    3 0xffffffff81734000 5b120    vboxdrv.ko
>   5    2 0xffffffff81812000 2d0d     vboxnetflt.ko
>   6    2 0xffffffff81815000 87b2     netgraph.ko
>   7    1 0xffffffff8181e000 1579     ng_ether.ko
>   8    1 0xffffffff81820000 4046     vboxnetadp.ko
> [pkraus at host2 ~]$
>
> I see three vbox modules. FreeBSD 9.1 and
>
> [pkraus at host2 ~]$ VBoxManage --version
> 4.2.12_OSEr84980
> [pkraus at host2 ~]$
>
> --
> Paul Kraus
> paul at kraus-haus.org
>
>


Hmmmm, yes, I see all of that .... I am on FBSD 9.3, &


[root at kabini1, /etc, 1:21:43pm] 541 %  VBoxManage --version
4.3.12_OSEr93733
[root at kabini1, /etc, 1:31:22pm] 542 %

I see no references to separate network stack .... maybe different 
versions of everything ?

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