[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#537864: Bug#537864: Happening on 686 emulating i386 not working

[Matías Bellone]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:26:07AM -0300, Matias Bellone wrote:
>> This happens on i386 emulating i386
>>
>> eternia:/home/toote# lsmod | grep vbox
>> vboxnetflt             72328  0
>> vboxnetadp             66864  0
>> vboxdrv               102576  1 vboxnetflt
>
> How did you build these modules? Do they have the same version as the other
> virtualbox packages?

They are the modules included in the virtualbox-ose-modules package. I
didn't compile it myself.

> What does dmesg tell you after insmod'ing the modules?

I have the modules loaded automatically on boot by setting
LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE to 1 on /etc/default/virtualbox-ose. This is what
I guess would be the output of that (last lines of /var/log/dmesg):

[   18.333841] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[   18.333848] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[   18.333852] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[   18.334117] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x834 offMax=0x10d10
[   18.334285] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode
is 'normal'.
[   18.334373] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.0.6_OSE
(interface 0x000e0000).

Then again, more investigation on this front resulted in the issue
being the same as #560320 [0]

I've upgraded to the unstable version and the same error occurred but
now it stated that one needed to install the -dkms package, did so and
it worked fine. I'm not sure if installing the -dkms package would
have solved it without updating too.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560320

>
>> eternia:/home/toote# vboxheadless
>
> Doesn't the line above lack some arguments? vboxheadless usually needs an
> argument.

Very likely, I use the qt interface. Just wanted a text-version of the
error as the error was the same just in a fancy dialog.

Regards,
Matías