On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux >> virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on >> the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge >> virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. >> After the emerge (list below) I also re-emerged the >> virtualbox-modules-3.2.12; logged out and rebooted. >> >> Now when I try to start virtualbox, it lists the guest machine as >> inaccessible; no other information is provided by the virtualbox startup >> window. I would appreciate inputs on how to fix this. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Valmor >> >> > > A couple of questions: > > 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage > which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and > again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my > drive D & E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I > might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized. > > 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on > Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running > 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though. > > Good luck, > Mark
I am running VB on a gentoo laptop; everything is mounted. I have not had any problems for a long time. I sync'ed portage a couple of weeks ago and the VB worked with my virtual win7 machine without problems. I am using 2.6.36-gentoo-r5. I have been searching the web and the VB forum pages but no luck yet. In the meantime I re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio USE flag and copied a working backup of .VirtualBox/ to my home directory; still get the same message (inaccessible). I will try an older backup later. Thanks, -- Valmor -> emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_L_640_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
