Re: Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

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On Friday 08 January 2010 19:18:46 Paul Ezvan wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 janvier 2010 à 17:44 -0600, David C. Rankin a écrit :
> > On 01/08/2010 03:47 PM, richard terry wrote:
> > > hi List,
> > >
> > > I've upgraded to kernel  2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work.
> > >
> > > I looked at the wiki re the various methods of upgrading the driver:
> > >
> > > [root@laptop pkg]# vbox_build_module
> > > Building vboxdrv for Linux 2.6.32-ARCH
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
> > > for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string
> > > common/log generic math/gcc; \
> > >             do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
> > > rm -rf .vboxdrv* .tmp_ver* vboxdrv.* Module.symvers Modules.symvers
> > > modules.order
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
> > > for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string
> > > common/log generic math/gcc; \
> > >             do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
> > > rm -rf .vboxnetflt* .tmp_ver* vboxnetflt.* Modules.symvers
> > > modules.order make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
> > > for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string
> > > common/log generic math/gcc; \
> > >             do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
> > > rm -rf .vboxnetadp* .tmp_ver* vboxnetadp.* Modules.symvers
> > > modules.order make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
> > > rm -f vboxdrv.ko vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko
> > > *** Building 'vboxdrv' module ***
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
> > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
> > > Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
> > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > >
> > >
> > > kernel-headers-2.6.32-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz is installed.
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> >
> > 	I can confirm that after the latest kernel update, VirtualBox is dead.
> > You were lucky, after I started vb, and small dialog appeared saying
> > "spawning" and then my box locked. I was able to grab a screenshot before
> > the box blackscreened:
> >
> > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/vbspawn800.jpg
> >
> > fullsized:
> >
> > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/vbspawn.jpg
> >
> > 	I had to power-off the box to shutdown.
> >
> > 	Another (possibly related) issue is that X is now consuming 75-90% of my
> > CPU. Something is not right. Here is the top screenshot showing the
> > behavior:
> >
> > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/X84-90percent.jpg
> 
> David, I have got the same problem with a Gentoo box and 2.6.32.3
> kernel, so it seems not to be Arch related.
> 
> Paul
> 

Just did a pacman -Syy && pacman -Su
got the latest kernel and headers rebuilt VirtualBox modules and Virtualbox is 
running well here.  I am using VirtualBox downloaded from www.virtualbox.org 
and not the arch package.


[root@myhost ~]# top                                                                                                                    
top - 19:47:58 up  1:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.16, 0.13
Tasks: 157 total,   1 running, 156 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  6.9%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 92.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  0.3%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  :  0.3%us,  2.4%sy,  2.1%ni, 95.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3372220k total,  2904860k used,   467360k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1941660k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4830 baho     40   0  111m 9.8m 5888 S    7  0.3   0:33.84 knotify4
 9576 baho     20   0  574m 502m 163m S    6 15.3   5:47.25 VirtualBox
 4864 baho     40   0 96700  15m 9244 S    1  0.5   0:04.80 konsole
 9743 root      40   0  2340 1068  804 R    1  0.0   0:00.07 top
 4595 root      40   0  792m 141m 5092 S    0  4.3   1:28.02 X
  


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