Re: [gentoo-user] Loading VirtualBox modules

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 01:54 on Tuesday 23 November 2010, Mark Knecht 
did opine thusly:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
wrote:
> > One of my VirtualBox-3.2.10 modules does not load at boot.
> >
> > /etc/conf.d/modules:
> > modules_2_6="vboxdrv"
> > modules_2_6="vboxnetflt"
> > modules_2_6="vboxnetadp"
> >
> > Everytime, either vboxnetflt or vboxnetadp does not load. It's
> > consistent, one or the other does not load andit's always just one,
> > never neither or two. Today it just happens to be the former:
> >
> > $ lsmod | grep vboxnetflt
> > vboxnetflt             13107  0
> > vboxdrv              1737920  2 vboxnetflt,vboxnetadp
> >
> > Once booted, modprobe vboxnetflt works as intended.
> >
> > Neither dmesg nor messages has any clue. Both have only this identical
> > info:
> >
> > [   12.460987] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog
> > permanently... [   12.460990] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
> > [   12.460991] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
> > [   12.461072] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa0d91460
> > [   12.461090] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1b5 offMax=0xa5a
> > [   12.461131] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is
> > 'normal'.
> > [   12.461133] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.10 (interface
> > 0x00140001).
> >
> >
> > kernel is 2.6.36-ck, this has been happening since 2.6.34; and my Google
> > searches were fruitless.
> >
> > Anyone have pointers as to why this might happen?
> >
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> Alan,
>    This is probably to much apples vs oranges to be of any real help:
>
> 1) Running gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r1 here
> 2) Running baselayout1 so everything for me goes in modules.autoload.d
> 3) Prior to this email wasn't loading vboxnetadp
>
>    I run a copy of M$ Windows Home Server in VBox to backup user data
> in my VMWare-Player XP/Win7 machines.
>
>    I added vboxnetadp to modules.audioload.d/kernel_2.6 and it seems
> to load fine for me:
>
> c2stable ~ # lsmod | grep vbox
> vboxnetadp              3942  0
> vboxnetflt             11379  1
> vboxdrv              1720608  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
> c2stable ~ #
>
>    I don't know what it does or how to test it but I'm not having any
> problems loading it.

Well whaddaya know. Even though our baselayouts are different, this got me 
thinking. I changed /etc/conf.d/modules from this:

modules_2_6="vboxdrv"
modules_2_6="vboxnetflt"
modules_2_6="vboxnetadp"

to this:

modules_2_6="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp"

and now it works:

# lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetadp              4374  0 
vboxnetflt             13107  0 
vboxdrv              1737920  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

Go figure :-)



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com