Tom, On Thursday 18 January 2007 11:23, Tom wrote: > First of all a big thanks! This looks like a very promising piece of > software.
Thank you. > But I have some troubles loading the kernel module in 2.6.19.2 > > dmesg: > vboxdrv: NMI watchdog active -- refused to load the kernel module! Please > disable vboxdrv: the NMI watchdog by specifying 'nmi_watchdog=0' at kernel > command line. > > The FAQ says, I should boot with nmi_watchdog=0 which does not make sense > as: > > a) I don't even have watchdog compiled in: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zgrep WATCHDOG /proc/config.gz > # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set It _does_ make sense. Because the watchdog you have looked for is a different thing than the NMI watchdog. > b) thanks to /proc a reboot wouldn't be needed anyway: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ find /proc/sys -name *watchdog* |xargs cat > 0 > > So I assume 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog' would be enough, but > it's set to 0 anyway in my case, see a). > > Do you have any idea on that? > I tried both, the binary version, and compiled from SVN. Our check might be a bit too strict. NMI has to be disabled, at least as long as VBox is running. And we have to make sure that the user is not able to re-enable it accidently, therefore the strict check. We are working on a better solution right now, I hope the next release will contain a fix. Kind regards, Frank -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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