Anybody is using VirtualBox?

[Reed Loefgren]

Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am tryingto run Windows under FreeBSD.
>>
>> When I run:
>> cat /dev/ad1s1 | VBoxManage stdin OutPutFile.vdi 21474836480
>> on 80-RC2 I get this output:
>> ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object!
>> ERROR: code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info
>> not available)
>> Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.
>>
>> No processes with name VirtualBox are running.
>>
>> What could be the problem?
>>     
>
> Do you have the vboxdrv.ko module loaded?
>
>
>   
I'll chime in here because I just de-installed virtualbox so it's fresh 
in mind. I had problems when I tried to run virtualbox after loading the 
vboxdrvr.ko manually while the machine was running. Maybe it crashed the 
machine, can't remember. After rebooting though, with the modules in 
/boot/modules/ and the modules having been loaded at boot time things 
worked great. So for me it was imperative that the module loaded at boot 
and not after the machine was fully up if I wanted virtualbox to run. (I 
de-installed because, after running opensolaris a few weeks, the novelty 
of virtual machines has worn off.)

HTH

sa