Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ionen Wolkens <sudinave@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load vboxpci
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:55:15
Message-Id: YAZKCfDtm14WOwTD@eversor
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load vboxpci by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 02:47:59PM -0700, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > On 1/18/21 2:31 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
3 > >
4 > > What is missing is in 5.4.80-gentoo-r1 is: vboxpci.ko
5 > >
6 > > In my old kernel it was there:
7 > > /lib/modules/5.4.72-gentoo/misc/vboxpci.ko
8 >
9 > It seems to me this driver is no longer needed/used.
10
11 It was for incomplete PCI passthrough support, removed in 6.1.x:
12
13 From changelog:
14 "Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
15 (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough"
16
17 So being gone is normal.
18 --
19 ionen

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature