too noisy virtualbox messages on dmesg

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 01:19:03 UTC 2009


2009/10/13 Kouichiro Iwao <meta at club.kyutech.ac.jp>

> Hi.
>
> I'm using VirtualBox 3.0.51 on 8-RC1 and it is properly working
> but too many messages are dumped on dmesg like below.
> The message blows off which I really need. Please give me instructions
> how to stop it or how to make it to be dumped somewhere else.
>
> [meta at trueno ~]$ dmesg | tail
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec2e28dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec1c78dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec1738dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec1738dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=crypto ppDev=0xec87e8dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=crypto ppDev=0xec87e8dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec87e8dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec87e8dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec87e8dc
> VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=tty ppDev=0xec87e8dc
>
> --
> Iwao, Koichiro <meta at club.kyutech.ac.jp>
>
>
Did you compile the port with debug enabled?  I don't see those messages
unless it is.

unload vbox kernel modules

cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox && make config

deselect debug

make && make deinstall install clean

reload vbox kernel modules


-- 
Adam Vande More


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