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chirpa
Mar 07, 2009Luminary
Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro
What is VirtualBox? So, I got bored while laundry was going... and decided to see how well a virtual OS would run on the Pro. My first choice of VM was VirtualBox, just cause I'm familiar with it a...
dbott67
Mar 12, 2009Guide
When I was running an earlier kernel, this is what happened:
dmesg reports:
A quick google led me to http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/233
When I ran `uname -r` with an older kernel I got:
After upgrading to 4.2.4-T43, uname reported:
So, I think you need to upgrade to 4.2.4 and then re-download the modules into the new directory.
Prometheus:~# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
Starting VirtualBox kernel module:
* modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
dmesg reports:
vboxdrv: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
A quick google led me to http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/233
Your error message usually means that your kernel headers and your current running kernel do not match
When I ran `uname -r` with an older kernel I got:
2.6.27.6.RNx86.1.1
After upgrading to 4.2.4-T43, uname reported:
2.6.27.6.RNx86.2.1
So, I think you need to upgrade to 4.2.4 and then re-download the modules into the new directory.
mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
wget http://www.readynas.com/download/modules/vboxdrv.ko
wget http://www.readynas.com/download/modules/vboxnetflt.ko
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