[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#565698: Bug#565698: not supported

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-01-26 Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:20:25PM +0100, Sven Marnach wrote:
> > > Thanks for  your bug report, however I've to tell you that sadly
> > > sun does not support a mixture of amd64 and i386 (namely 64bit
> > > kernel, 32 bit userland).
 
> > According to the Debian Wiki, this information is out of date.
 
> >   http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#A32-bituserlandwithamd64kernel

> The information listed in there is neither helpful (a guest OS runs inside the
> VM and not as VM) nor correct. Sorry about that, I removed that line, didn't
> notice it prior to your email.


Hello,

the wiki currently says:
----------------------
32-bit userland with amd64 kernel

For Lenny, VirtualBox (version 2.x and before) does not work in such
scenarios, see Debian bug 456391. For Lenny Backport, Squeeze and
after, VirtualBox (version 3.x and after) works without problem. 
----------------------

However it (i.e. "Architecture: i386 (x86_64)", "Kernel: Linux
2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)" does not work[1] on squeeze. Could
you fix the wiki page?

thanks, cu andreas


[1] the usual symptoms:
ametzler at argenau:~$ vboxheadless
VBoxHeadless: Error -1912 in supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime!
VBoxHeadless: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912

VBoxHeadless: Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox.
ametzler at argenau:~$ dmesg|tail -n1
[ 4606.430672] ioctl32(VBoxHeadless:16995): Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(c0305601){t:'V';sz:48} arg(ffbb88d8) on /dev/vboxdrv