cannot launch VMs (upgrade to virtualbox-4.0.8)

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Sun, 22 May 2011 19:02:29 +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:04:33 +0200
> Gour-Gadadhara Dasa <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:
> 
>> Here is the error which I get:
>> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/vbox.png/ - It's
>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005).
>>
>> I saw some posts like this
>> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=187733 but the
>> solution does not apply.
> 
> After de-installing & re-installing virtualbox-ose-kmod, now I can
> launch my VMs again. :-)

Then you probably haven't restarted the machine after updating?

>>
>> Moreover, attempt to install Exension pack gives:
>>
>> "Failed to locate the main module ('VBoxPuelMain')"
> 
> However, I still cannot install Extension pack. :-(

The PUEL Extpack is a binary blob that does not support FreeBSD. So
this is not supposed to work.

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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