VirtualBox doesn't start

Frank Wißmann frank.wissmann41 at web.de
Sun Jan 31 18:30:27 UTC 2010


Hi, Glen1

Glen Barber schrieb:
> Frank Wi?mann wrote: 
>>> Is your user in the "vboxusers" group?
>>>
>> OK, now he is. But either as "root" or as normal user I get the same 
>> result as in the message in the last mail described.
>>
> 
> Ok, three questions:
> 
>   1.) Did you log out after adding yourself to the group?  If not, open a
>   new terminal emulator and run the command again.

I did it in the meantime, but the result is the same.

> 
>   2.) What version of VirtualBox is this?  virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 and above
>   do not require procfs(5); lesser versions do.

It is virtualbox-3.0.51.r22902_3.

> 
>   3.) Are your kernel / userland in sync?

Yes. "uname -a" says: FreeBSD grissom.einundvierzig.org 8.0-RELEASE 
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Jan  2 21:13:02 CET 2010 
frank at grissom.einundvierzig.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRISSOM  amd64

Greetings Frank

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