Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

[n952162]

On 2/4/21 5:17 PM, Jack wrote:
> On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote:
>> On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote:
>>>> The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox.
>>> Whenever you update app-emulation/virtualbox *or* your kernel version,
>>> you need to update app-emulation/virtualbox-modules as well. The
>>> versions of those two packages have to be lock-step, and the latter
>>> needs to be rebuilt whenever your kernel version changes, or else the
>>> previously-built modules will not load.
>>>
>>
>> Both are in my world file:
>>
>> # grep virtualbox /var/lib/portage/world
>> app-emulation/virtualbox
>> app-emulation/virtualbox-modules
>
> If you have already run virtualbox since the last reboot, you might
> need to rmmod those modules to unload the older version. Then you can
> use modprobe to load the new versions, without having to reboot.
>
> Jack
>
>

Good tip, unfortunately, it didn't help:

$ sudo rmmod vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv
Password:
$ lsmod | grep  vbox
$ startvm txm1.4-new
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
          available for the current kernel (4.19.86-gentoo-x86_64) or it
failed to
          load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

            for m in vbox{drv,netadp,netflt}; do modprobe $m; done

          You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Waiting for VM "txm1.4-new" to power on...
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'txm1.4-new' has terminated
unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005),
component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

That takes away my confidence that it would work after a re-boot ...