Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Lawrence Nitz wrote: > >> No, I start Vbox cold either from a menu --and the control panel comes >> up nicely. Failure occurs only when I try to power on a VM. >> >> I noted that the character control VBox responds with the warning: >> "WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Try >> >> sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox restart >> >> and if that is not successful, try to re-install the package....." >> >> There is no /etc/init.d/virtualbox. >> > > Ok, this is a typo, we will fix that. Of course /etc/init.d/vboxdrv > is meant. > > Hmm, could you check if the vboxdrv module is actually loaded > (lsmod | grep vboxdrv)? > > How did you install VirtualBox? rpm -i or rpm -U? > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > Thanks, Frank!
1. I installed using rpm -i 2. Probing the proc modules directory gives the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]# more /proc/modules |grep vboxdrv vboxdrv 1646479 1 - Loading 0xffffffff88424000 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
