On Thursday, February 18, 2016 10:06:25 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2016 20:42:44 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 05:01:51 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > --->8 > > > > > I only have the following set: > > > > # CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is not set > > > > CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y > > > > CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y > > > > > > Okay. I've tried that and I still get the pop-up notice "VBoxClient: the > > > VirtualBox kernel service is not running." This is with version 4.3.32. > > > I'll try later versions and see what happens. Thanks for the info. > > > > I actually run 4.3.28 myself at the moment. > > Right. > > --->8 > > > One other thing, are you in the "vboxusers" group? > > Of course. Also the vboxguest group recently. > > > My user is and I have the following devices: > > > > % ls -lsa /dev/vbox* > > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxdrv > > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 55 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxdrvu > > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 54 Feb 7 13:16 /dev/vboxnetctl > > > > /dev/vboxusb: > > total 0 > > 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 7 15:24 . > > 0 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 6360 Feb 17 18:13 .. > > 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 100 Feb 17 18:13 001 > > > > What do you get for the following: > > > > % ls -lsa /dev/vbox* > > % lsmod | grep vbox > > # ls -lsa /dev/vbox* > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 58 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxdrv > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 57 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxdrvu > 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Feb 17 16:54 /dev/vboxnetctl > > /dev/vboxusb: > total 0 > 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 17 16:54 . > 0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 3.9K Feb 18 09:40 .. > 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 Feb 18 09:40 002 > > # ls -lsa /dev/vboxusb/002 > total 0 > 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 Feb 18 09:40 . > 0 drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Feb 17 16:54 .. > 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 130 Feb 17 16:54 003 > 0 crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 189, 133 Feb 18 09:40 006 > > # lsmod | grep vbox > vboxpci 13106 0 > vboxnetflt 16882 0 > vboxnetadp 17862 0 > vboxdrv 331090 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci > > I still can't shake the idea that I don't have my kernel set up right. Do I > need anything particular in control groups, or name spaces, or anything?
About the kernel: I don't have anything special. USE-flags: [I] app-emulation/virtualbox Installed versions: 4.3.32{tbz2}(03:46:09 PM 11/25/2015)(additions alsa extensions java opengl pam pulseaudio qt4 sdk udev -doc -headless -libressl - python -vboxwebsrv -vnc ELIBC="-FreeBSD" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7") What does " dmesg " have to say? For me: % dmesg | grep -i vbox [ 165.950507] vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores. [ 165.950787] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1fe offMax=0xa4f9 [ 165.950828] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. [ 165.950829] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.3.32 (interface 0x001a000b). [ 165.978641] vboxpci: pci-stub module not available, cannot detach PCI devices [ 165.978643] vboxpci: IOMMU found I actually updated to 4.3.32 yesterday. VMs are still starting. How exactly are you starting the VMs? I do it all with the GUI: /usr/bin/VirtualBox -- Joost