Virtualbox questions ....

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

>
> I followed the directions in order, & the 1st thing it did was load the
> kernel module ....
>
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 1:13:41pm] 539 %  kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1   20 0xffffffff80200000 1611638  kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff81812000 a890     geom_stripe.ko
>  3    1 0xffffffff8181d000 3cb8     amdtemp.ko
>  4    1 0xffffffff81a12000 121fa    ipfw.ko
>  5    1 0xffffffff81a25000 9fd4     linprocfs.ko
>  6    1 0xffffffff81a2f000 46f64    linux.ko
>  7    1 0xffffffff81a76000 3615f    vboxdrv.ko
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 1:13:44pm] 540 %
>
>
> Note last entry ....
>
>
>
> On 08/28/14 11:34, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I just pkg-installed virtualbox-ose  virtualbox-ose-additions
>>> virtualbox-ose-kmod & whatever they wanted as dependencies. I followed
>>> most
>>> of the directions at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
>>> handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html, until I got down to the
>>> part about changing permissions for |/dev/vboxnetctl .... there is no
>>> such
>>> animal on my box (FBSD 9.3 64-bit, new install) ....
>>>
>>
>> Because you don't have the kernel module loaded.  Assuming you are
>> diligently following the instructions
>
>
See above and below:

"To use the kernel modules that allow bridged or host-only networking, add
the following to /etc/rc.conf and reboot the computer:"

-- 
Adam