Re: virtualbox /proc/modules warning

В Чт, 12/09/2013 в 17:45 +0300, Alex Efros пишет:
> Each time any of VirtualBox commands started it print this useless warning:
> 
> ---cut---
> libkmod: kmod_module_new_from_loaded: could not open /proc/modules: Permission denied
> Error: could not get list of modules: Permission denied
> WARNING: The VirtualBox kernel modules are not loaded.
>          Please load all the needed kernel modules by:
> 
>            for m in vbox{drv,netadp,netflt}; do modprobe $m; done
> 
>          You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
> ---cut---
> 
> Of course, modules are loaded, but non-root users can't access
> /proc/modules because of GrSecurity. So, VirtualBox works fine, but this
> multiline warning really annoying. Is it possible to somehow switch it off?

There are other use-cases where this warning is useless, like running
virtualbox inside openvz container :) /usr/bin/VirtualBox binary is a
shell script that you can easy modify to avoid this warning. That said I
don't think it's worth to have such patch in portage tree - just apply
it locally.

--
Peter.