[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] problem with amd64 kernel

[Frank Mehnert]

Michael,

On Monday 30 June 2008, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I'd like to do a new upload for virtualbox soon, but I have a problem
> getting it to run under 2.6.25. Well that is it works nicely with the
> 686 kernel version. When using the amd64 kernel however, vbox keeps
> telling me that the module was from a different vbox version than the
> binary despite both being 1.6.2. Anyone else experiencing this?

you are probably trying to execute VirtualBox/x86 on an AMD64 kernel.
Note that there is still no proper error message if the user tries
this. An AMD64 kernel requires the AMD64 version of VirtualBox, an
AMD64 kernel with x86 userland is not supported.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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