Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: OK, I got the VirtualBox software going, but I really wanted to get OS/2 going. When I launched the VM, I got the warning... VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
OK, I got the VirtualBox software going, but I really wanted to get OS/2 going. When I launched the VM, I got the warning... VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have

[gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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 My machine is a 2-year-old Dell D530 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I didn't RTFM thoroughly enough. Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new kernel, you have to /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. The result is... [d530][root][~]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I didn't RTFM thoroughly enough. Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new kernel, you have to /etc/init.d/vboxdrv

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:51:45 -0400, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I didn't RTFM thoroughly enough. Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new kernel, you