A question on VirtualBox vm

Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 10 22:42:44 UTC 2016


Hi,

I occasionally fire up Win XP vm in VirtualBox. I have noticed that if I 
do a manual 'kldload vmm', vbox will refuse to start the guest, citing 
the error that vmm is already in use.

But once I have fired up the guest, I see no mention of vmm in the 
output of kldstat :

# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
  1   51 0xffffffff80200000 17bc680  kernel
  2    1 0xffffffff81a11000 a7c0     tmpfs.ko
  3    1 0xffffffff81a1c000 56c6     fdescfs.ko
  4    1 0xffffffff81a22000 9faf     linprocfs.ko
  5    4 0xffffffff81a2c000 683b     linux_common.ko
  6    1 0xffffffff81a33000 563c     linsysfs.ko
  7    1 0xffffffff81a39000 2ba8     uhid.ko
  8    1 0xffffffff81a3c000 358d     ums.ko
  9    2 0xffffffff81a40000 29b2     vboxnetflt.ko
10    2 0xffffffff81a43000 ba02     netgraph.ko
11    2 0xffffffff81a4f000 45340    vboxdrv.ko
12    1 0xffffffff81a95000 4123     ng_ether.ko
13    1 0xffffffff81a9a000 3f64     vboxnetadp.ko
14    2 0xffffffff81a9e000 3d118    linux.ko
15    1 0xffffffff81adc000 37ae5    linux64.ko
16    1 0xffffffff81b14000 df9a     fuse.ko
17    1 0xffffffff81b22000 76c906   nvidia.ko
18    1 0xffffffff8228f000 302e     beastie_saver.ko


1) Is that not a bit strange ?  If vbox uses the vmm module, then 
perhaps vmm should be getting automatically kldloaded

2) Has someone managed to get a Windows XP (32 bit) vm running in bhyve ?

Thanks for any information
Manish Jain


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