<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">aaahhh yes when you start the service for the first time it builds te module on gentoo <div>brings back memories!!!</div><div>ive been testing quite a few distros over the past few days and i forgot how good gentoo was </div><div><br></div><div>netbsd is nice just need to learn how to administer it!! </div><div><br></div><div>Wayne</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 15 Oct 2009, at 09:23, jonath wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>If anyone's bothered . . . the solution was simple enough: reboot the<br>computer. I think some weirdness was going on with kernels and modules<br>and such-like. Everything working fine now.<br><br>The error regarding 'you need to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start' was a<br>complete red herring. The problem was that VirtualBox requires a few<br>kernel modules to be installed (e.g. modprobe vboxdrv) and one of<br>these wasn't loading up using modprobe. It's possible to have this<br>done automatically at start-up (via<br>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6) and, when I did the re-boot with<br>the modules listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 it all worked<br>fine.<br><br>Next question: I wonder if I can run a virtual machine over the<br>network (via NFS)?! That is, VirtualBox installed on one machine, but<br>virtual hard drive for virtual machine located on another machine, on<br>a drive shared out via NFS.<br><br>jonathan<br><br>2009/10/14 Wayne Ward <<a href="mailto:wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk">wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi jonathan i did this on my macbook in virtualbox<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it sounds to me like the upgrade isnt upgrading the module properly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would look at a emerge removal with a purge then go and check it has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">removed the module and other items<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">them re-emerge it - its sounds like the old module is lurking.......<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wayne<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 14 Oct 2009, at 15:39, jonath wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wayne,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What software do you use for making your virtual boxes? I'm always<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">having problems with virtual machines. I use to use VMWare Workstation<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(I think it was), which kind of worked okay (mostly), but it was a bit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of behemoth. I then tried out VirtualBox, when has been okay up until<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">recently (until I upgraded from 1.6 to 3.0.something). Now I get some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">weird error telling me I need to run '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start'. Of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">course, that file doesn't exist. Downgrading doesn't seem to work<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">either. Joy, joy, joy. This is all on a Gentoo system.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">jonathan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2009/10/14 Wayne Ward <<a href="mailto:wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk">wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk</a>>:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mananged to get gentoo and arch and debian all in virtual boxes last night<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i was talking to gareth on sykpe through the installs and tested out some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">screen sharing etc which was awsome<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gareth managed to get the new ubuntu installed and shared his screen to give<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">me a preview!!!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i think the gentoo install took around hour and a half and the arch was a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hour - the debian install was around 20 minutes but that has no real hard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">work to do!!! all these installs were just to a basic command prompt so you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">build on top of that - the gentoo install i built everything required into<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the kernel so no modules!! and cut all the rubbish out of the kernel - and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the install was very basic using minimal packages and no use flags - so this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could be shown at a meeting no problem although im thinking to start this of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we should start from easier installs first im thinking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Base system installs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">debian install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">arch install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gentoo install<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Build on top of the base systems<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">debain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">arch<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gentoo<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So one week so the debain and arch if people can handle this or start slowly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with the debian??...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was thinking for next months meeting although i have to say i cant make<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the first wednesday of the month and wanted to arrange the meeting for the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">next week if everybody is okay with this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gareth how did you get on with the gento 10.0 install???<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wayne ward<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">07957448652<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lancaster Computers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.lancastercomputers.co.uk">www.lancastercomputers.co.uk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk">wayne@lancastercomputers.co.uk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Computers - 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