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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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.

Can it be documented somewhere in the mean time? Or could the application
detect it and give a more meaningful error message?

Do you have an pointer to the relevant upstream bug report that you could
use as "forwarded" info instead of the useless "forwarded to
info at innotek.de" ?

For the record, I got bitten by this this morning and it resulted in the
following kernel message:
[59624.962144] ioctl32(VirtualBox:8960): Unknown cmd fd(32) cmd(c0305601){t:'V';sz:48} arg(ff937254) on /dev/vboxdrv

The message displayed by VirtualBox was the same as the submitter but of
course, everything is in sync (i386 arch here, but amd64 kernel):
ii  virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.27-1-amd64      2.1.0-dfsg-2+2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12516
ii  virtualbox-ose                             2.1.0-dfsg-2

And the loaded kernel driver is the right version too:
[59616.125085] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[59616.125095] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[59616.125098] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[59616.125210] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa046b900
[59616.125246] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x426 offMax=0x1332
[59616.125343] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[59616.125352] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 2.1.0_OSE (interface 0x000a0008).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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