vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv
Ryan Stone
rysto32 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 19:29:38 UTC 2011
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:04 PM, G. Paul Ziemba
<pz-freebsd-virtualization at ziemba.us> wrote:
> Hello wise ones,
>
> I have the recent (from a few days ago) virtualbox-ose and
> virtualbox-ose-kmod ports installed. Other ports are mostly
> from Jan, 2011. With vboxdrv.ko loaded, /dev/vboxdrv does not
> seem to be created and I don't know why.
>
> % kldstat
> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 34 0xc0400000 c4fc74 kernel
> 2 2 0xc1050000 2fc38 linux.ko
> 3 1 0xc1080000 1c420 snd_hda.ko
> 4 1 0xc109d000 9970 aio.ko
> 6 1 0xc73ce000 8000 linprocfs.ko
> 7 1 0xc78d1000 10000 ipfw.ko
> 8 1 0xc7bf9000 21000 kqemu.ko
> 9 1 0xc7cc2000 2000 blank_saver.ko
> 10 1 0xc7ee2000 68000 radeon.ko
> 11 1 0xc7f4a000 14000 drm.ko
> 12 1 0xc92fd000 b000 netgraph.ko
> 13 1 0xcbbc9000 2e000 vboxdrv.ko
> % ls /dev/vboxdrv
> ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
> %
>
> I originally had a RELENG_8 kernel and userland from Jan, 2011 on
> this host, but I csup-ed this morning (tag=RELENG_8) and built/
> installed new kernel and userland. I also rebuilt virtualbox-ose
> and virtualbox-ose-kmod afterwards.
>
> There seems to be some logging facility in the vboxdrv code, but I
> do not understand how to enable it or where to look for the output.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> ~!paul
> --
> G. Paul Ziemba
> FreeBSD unix:
> 2:01PM up 1:36, 6 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.36, 0.38
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Do you see any errors on the console/in dmesg?
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