Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom,
Hi Frank! Thanks for the response! > 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: > > > > tom <at> SiRiUS ~ $ 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. Ah, I thought they were related. But thinking of it once more, if they really were, then having it disabled in the kernel, there should also be no entry for it in /proc - right. > > b) thanks to /proc a reboot wouldn't be needed anyway: > > > > tom <at> SiRiUS ~ $ 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 So the check currently is, if the kernel was bootet with a command line containing nmi_watchdog=0 --> OK, else --> error? That indeed would explain the need for a reboot. Thanks for clearing this out! Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
