Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 20:52:37 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:22:05PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> The appropriate way to do this is to add them to /boot/loader.conf,
> like this:
> 
> vboxdrv_load="yes"
> vboxnetflt_load="yes"
> vboxnetadp_load="yes"
> 
> You could also write a new-style rc.d script to do this fairly easily,
> see
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html
> for more information. There are also existing ports that use rc.d to
> load kernel modules, although none of the names come to mind off hand.

And many base rc scripts in /etc/rc.d/, grep for load_kld, defined and
described in /etc/rc.subr.

> 
> 
> Doug
> 
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Yuri


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