Changeset 99797 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/externalkernelmodules.dita
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- May 15, 2023 5:27:56 PM (2 years ago)
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r98549 r99797 2 2 <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd"> 3 3 <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="externalkernelmodules"> 4 <title>The Oracle VM VirtualBoxKernel Modules</title>4 <title>The <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Kernel Modules</title> 5 5 6 6 <body> 7 7 <p> 8 8 In order to run other operating systems in virtual machines 9 alongside your main operating system, Oracle VM VirtualBoxneeds to9 alongside your main operating system, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> needs to 10 10 integrate very tightly with your system. To do this it installs 11 11 a driver module called <userinput>vboxdrv</userinput> into the 12 12 system kernel. The kernel is the part of the operating system 13 13 which controls your processor and physical hardware. Without 14 this kernel module, you can still use VirtualBox Managerto configure14 this kernel module, you can still use <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> to configure 15 15 virtual machines, but they will not start. 16 16 </p> … … 24 24 <p> 25 25 Since distributing driver modules separately from the kernel is 26 not something which Linux supports well, the Oracle VM VirtualBox26 not something which Linux supports well, the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> 27 27 install process creates the modules on the system where they 28 28 will be used. This means that you may need to install some
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