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Hello list, |
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I'm going round in circles here. I've been running VirtualBox and BOINC for |
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years with no problems to speak of. |
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Over the last year or more I've experienced mysterious failures in many |
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programs, some of them real nuisances, and recently I decided to replace my |
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RAM modules with a single matched set, which seems to have done the trick - so |
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far! It's required complete recompilation of everything, and throwing away |
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quite a lot of data that seemed to have been damaged at some time (hello |
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KMail). |
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Now however I can't get VirtualBox running properly. I've tried the latest |
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stable version and two testing versions, but at every login via KDM I get a |
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pop-up notice "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running." |
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That's without any clients active or trying to be. If I then start virtualbox- |
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guest-additions I get this: |
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# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-additions start |
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* Loading kernel modules |
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modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxguest': No such device |
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modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device |
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* ERROR: virtualbox-guest-additions failed to start |
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I assume I'm missing something in my kernel config, but I can't see what. |
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linux # grep -i virt .config |
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# CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is not set |
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CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y |
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CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y |
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# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set |
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# CONFIG_SND_VIRTUOSO is not set |
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CONFIG_VIRT_DRIVERS=y |
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# Virtio drivers |
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# CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI is not set |
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# CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO is not set |
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# CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not set |
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CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y |
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Most of those unset values are for when this kernel is running as a guest of |
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another OS, so I assume I don't need them when running as the host OS. Others |
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I can't set because they're hidden until I set the values to be a guest. |
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I can find lots of other people struggling with this and similar problems, but |
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no fix. |
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Any ideas here? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |