VirtualBox and the missing ConsoleMessage command on Snow Leopard

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jan 30 09:24:02 PST 2012


On Jan 29, 2012, at 13:14, Marko Käning wrote:

>> Why are you trying to start it using the startup item? Why not just double-click Virtual Box in the Applications folder?
> 
> Because the startupitem wasn't installed by "port install virtualbox". So I had to do load the kernel modules manually and then double-click the application itself.

Oh right, kernel module. Still, you're not supposed to access the startupitem directly; use "sudo port load VirtualBox" and "sudo port unload VirtualBox" to load and unload the launchd plist.





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