virtualbox crash

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On 9/30/20 10:35 PM, Jeremy wrote:
> So I rebuilt both virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-ose-kmod and the driver
> successfully loaded in my system updated to beta 3, but I haven't tested
> virtualbox yet to see if it actually works, although I have no reason to
> believe it won't.
>
> I suppose the issue really is if you forget to disable loading vboxdrv.ko
> like I did, it can result in a hard lockup. I know I had to lookup how to
> mount ZFS from a live cd to fix loader.conf, it's been a few years since
> the last time I've had to do it.
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 16:14 Jeremy <jeremy.m.cox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am also experiencing this problem after updating to beta 3. It is a hard
>> lockup and no keys will respond. It requires the computer to be turned off
>> via the power button. But it definitely looks like an issue with the
>> virtualbox driver. Normally I disable the drivers from loading before I do
>> an update but this time I forgot to.
>>
Maybe you can jump into the loader command line and then give "unset vboxdrv_load" a try.

I think I've done something similar in the past by I don't remember the details.

Regards,

Mateusz Piotrowski