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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:17:22
Message-Id: e18ff3d9-9297-93b7-5921-8737b8561711@users.sourceforge.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch by n952162
1 On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
3 >> On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote:
4 >>> The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox.
5 >> Whenever you update app-emulation/virtualbox *or* your kernel version,
6 >> you need to update app-emulation/virtualbox-modules as well. The
7 >> versions of those two packages have to be lock-step, and the latter
8 >> needs to be rebuilt whenever your kernel version changes, or else the
9 >> previously-built modules will not load.
10 >>
11 >
12 > Both are in my world file:
13 >
14 > # grep virtualbox /var/lib/portage/world
15 > app-emulation/virtualbox
16 > app-emulation/virtualbox-modules
17
18 If you have already run virtualbox since the last reboot, you might need
19 to rmmod those modules to unload the older version. Then you can use
20 modprobe to load the new versions, without having to reboot.
21
22 Jack

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