On 09/27/2009 06:28 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I installed Sun's virtualbox manually, because portage couldn't build
it. DMESG says...
kvm: no hardware support
...and during bootup, I get...
* Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...
* modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
Well, that's all a bit strange. 'kvm' is one of the two kernel modules
used by kvm (naturally) which is a completely different product from
vbox. kvm is great for machines with hardware virtualization support,
but doesn't work at all without it.
VirtualBox OTOH does not need hardware support at all and uses its own
kernel module name vboxdrv (has nothing to do with kvm). I'm thinking
you looked at the wrong part of dmesg -- but why there is an error
message there from kvm I can't guess.
I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried building
the portage version. What problem do you see?
