vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM, G. Paul Ziemba <
pz-freebsd-virtualization at ziemba.us> wrote:

> Hello wise ones,
>
> I have the recent (from a few days ago) virtualbox-ose and
> virtualbox-ose-kmod ports installed. Other ports are mostly
> from Jan, 2011. With vboxdrv.ko loaded, /dev/vboxdrv does not
> seem to be created and I don't know why.
>
>    % kldstat
>    Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>     1   34 0xc0400000 c4fc74   kernel
>     2    2 0xc1050000 2fc38    linux.ko
>     3    1 0xc1080000 1c420    snd_hda.ko
>     4    1 0xc109d000 9970     aio.ko
>     6    1 0xc73ce000 8000     linprocfs.ko
>     7    1 0xc78d1000 10000    ipfw.ko
>     8    1 0xc7bf9000 21000    kqemu.ko
>     9    1 0xc7cc2000 2000     blank_saver.ko
>    10    1 0xc7ee2000 68000    radeon.ko
>    11    1 0xc7f4a000 14000    drm.ko
>    12    1 0xc92fd000 b000     netgraph.ko
>    13    1 0xcbbc9000 2e000    vboxdrv.ko
>    % ls /dev/vboxdrv
>    ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
>    %
>
> I originally had a RELENG_8 kernel and userland from Jan, 2011 on
> this host, but I csup-ed this morning (tag=RELENG_8) and built/
> installed new kernel and userland. I also rebuilt virtualbox-ose
> and virtualbox-ose-kmod afterwards.
>
> There seems to be some logging facility in the vboxdrv code, but I
> do not understand how to enable it or where to look for the output.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>

On a perfectly functioning vbox host, I don't have it either:

galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv
ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory

but I do have:

galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv*
/dev/vboxdrv0



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Adam Vande More