On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard to answer, because I don't know how Tails works.
https://tails.boum.org/ > Just see what makes VirtualBox tick in standard Linux (by manually compiling > and installing vbox), and see how Tails is any different from standard > Linux. (at which stage things break apart) I've tried as much as I can think of (checking /etc/init.d, syslog, dmesg, lsmod, etc.). > In general, you need only one primary kernel module: > -vboxdrv > (other modules are optional) Ok. > +one primary service: > -VBoxSVC the vboxsvc and other modules are loaded. /dev/vboxdrv exists, and looking in /lib/modules shows the virtualbox modules are under the running kernel > And they all need to match in version with GUI. Yes, I've got matching versions, but Virtualbox doesn't consider them usable. How does Virtualbox try to load the modules / check the version numbers? Is there some vbox logging I can enable to debug this? I suspect a bad file permission, missing file, or something along those lines, but I need to know what makes vbox fail.. > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Austin English <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Austin English <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > I've tried to use the community support but gotten no useful replies, >> > and this is more of a developer level question anyway.. >> > >> > I'm trying to fix this issue in Tails: >> > https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5606 >> > >> > I've gotten the modules to build and install, and when I boot up the >> > modified Tails, the vboxsvc and other modules are loaded. /dev/vboxdrv >> > exists, and looking in /lib/modules shows the virtualbox modules are >> > under the running kernel. Making a new vm and trying to start it, >> > however, fails, saying that the modules aren't loaded (possible >> > version mismatch). I don't get any extra logging on stdout/stderr to >> > tell me what is missing / what it's looking for. >> > >> > What logs/options could I use to debug what's going on? Is there any >> > documentation I missed for this? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > -Austin >> >> Ping. >> >> -- >> -Austin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > > > > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- -Austin _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
