[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] problem with amd64 kernel

[Frank Mehnert]

On Monday 30 June 2008, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Frank,
>
> > you are probably trying to execute VirtualBox/x86 on an AMD64 kernel.
> > Note that there is still no proper error message if the user tries
> > this. An AMD64 kernel requires the AMD64 version of VirtualBox, an
> > AMD64 kernel with x86 userland is not supported.
>
> Actually no. I run the amd64 version from my amd64 chroot. I do it this
> way for testing stuff ever since. That's what suprises me.

Have a look at

  src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/SUPLib.cpp
  lines 220-221 and lines 223-224

for two tests (you might add some

  LogRel(("...\n", ...));

there to printf some information to your VBox.log file.

If that doesn't help, have a look at

  src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/SUPDRVShared.c
  line 816-817

Add some printk's there to printf information to the kernel debug console
(use dmesg to display these information).

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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