[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456391: Bug#456391: virtualbox-ose-source: AMD64

[Michael Meskes]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:00:46AM +1000, Mark Pavlichuk wrote:
>   I'm using an AMD64 kernel on a i386 userspace (because I need to use
> software only available as i386 binaries).  The AMD64 kernel module compiles,
> installs and modprobes, but when I run VirtualBox I get the following error
> dialog :
> ...

This is a known problem shared with quite some other pieces of software.
The kernel interface is not 64 bit clean. I'm running a similar setup
albeit with sid instead of etch, but also with a 64bit kernel and 32bit
userland. My workaround is to have a 64bit chroot available and run
virtualbox inside the changeroot.

Michael
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