[ale] botched install of Virtual Box

[stephen.leonard at gmail.com (Stephen Leonard)]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:35:14PM -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> I keep trying to install Virtual Box on my Kubuntu setup with a custom kernel. 
> It gets through the step where it builds the vboxdrv. But I get an error from 
> dmesg:
> 
> vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate NMI watchdog permanently...
> vboxdrv: NMI watchdog either active or at least initialized. Please disable 
> the NMI
> vboxdrv: watchdog by specifying 'nmi_watchdog=0' at kernel command line.
> 
> I googled and found some really interesting discussions about NMI watchdog on 
> the kernel mailing list (Linus is against it). But I didn't find anything 
> that would tell me what to do about it here. Any ideas?

I think you need to find your custom kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst and
add it there.  The file documents where you should add it.

stephen