[arch-general] VirtualBox

[Guilherme M. Nogueira]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com>wrote:

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> [code][root at ghost ~]# /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv start
> -bash: /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory[/code]
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Actually, vboxdrv is a kernel module, so you have to load it.
This can be done (as root) with 'modprobe vboxdrv'.

If you're going to use VirtualBox on a regular way, a suggest
you put vboxdrv in your MODULES array on /etc/rc.conf

Below is what I see after I downloaded the Tarball and ran 'makepkg
> -s' against it:
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> [cmennens at ghost virtualbox_bin]$ ls -l
> total 91336
> drwxr-xr-x 6 cmennens users     4096 Apr 14 09:18 pkg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users     4694 Jan  1  1970 PKGBUILD
> drwxr-xr-x 2 cmennens users     4096 Mar 25 15:10 src
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users      113 Jan  1  1970 vbox_build_module
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users     3269 Jan  1  1970 vbox.install
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users 51834320 Mar 25 15:44
> VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-Linux_amd64.run
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users 41664600 Apr 14 09:18
> virtualbox_bin-3.1.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz[/code]
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Also, when you update your kernel, you're supposed to run the
vbox_build_module again.


-- 
Guilherme M. Nogueira
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