10/stable virtualbox-ose crashes

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> On 05/29/2015 13:38, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Russell L. Carter <rcarter at pinyon.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> kldload vboxsrv crashes recent 10/stables.  Last known working
>>> kernel/module pair is from May 5th.
>>>
>>> Not sure what is the optimal next step, suggestions welcome.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like you have done this, but several reports have been made of this
>> recently.  All were "fixed" by rebuilding virtualbox-ose-kmod. Always
>> rebuild all kernel modules that are in ports when rebuilding the kernel,
>> preferably by adding the appropriate PORTS_MODULES to /etc/src.conf.
>> --
>> Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
>> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
>
> Won't this will be a problem if people use official packages (built on
> 10.x-RELEASE) on a system running -stable?  Wouldn't it mean an ABI was
> violated?


The KBI (kernel binary interface that the kernel modules use) is not
part of the promised stability, only the userland ABI is guaranteed to
stay compatible.

-Kimmo