Virtualbox drivers

[pdr]

I have virtualbox, virtualbox-additions, virtualbox-extpack-oracle, virtualbox-modules emerged, but I have not been doing a @module-rebuild because I removed the 3 vbox modules from /etc/conf.d/modules because I don't currently run it (if I need another VM I'll do the @module-rebuild, manually modprobe, etc).

But at boot time the system keeps wanting to load the modules (and is failing since I have not rebuilt them for the current kernel). How do I get the system to quit trying to autoload the Virtualbox modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt)?

[chiefbag]

You could blacklist them as a temporary fix.
There is probably a better way but for example the following may do:

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lsmod | grep vbox       
vboxpci                24576  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxnetflt             28672  1
vboxdrv               397312  4 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxp

Then add them to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

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blacklist vboxdrv
blacklist vboxnetflt 

.. etc

[guitou]

Hi.

You may also comment unnecessary modules in your /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf

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