Virtualbox questions ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Thu Aug 28 18:29:02 UTC 2014


On 08/28/14 13:25, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, 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 ....
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/28/14 11:34, Adam Vande More wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just pkg-installed virtualbox-ose  virtualbox-ose-additions
>>>> virtualbox-ose-kmod & whatever they wanted as dependencies. I followed
>>>> most
>>>> of the directions at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
>>>> handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html, until I got down to the
>>>> part about changing permissions for |/dev/vboxnetctl .... there is no
>>>> such
>>>> animal on my box (FBSD 9.3 64-bit, new install) ....
>>>>
>>> Because you don't have the kernel module loaded.  Assuming you are
>>> diligently following the instructions
>>
> See above and below:
>
> "To use the kernel modules that allow bridged or host-only networking, add
> the following to /etc/rc.conf and reboot the computer:"
>


*Eeeeeekkkk* !!!! Forgot that '& reboot' ....


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