[Novalug] question about error message

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Mon May 23 22:03:25 EDT 2011


I have Ububtu maverick


I found this error message when I was booting up this morning. it was 
displayed on the terminal you access with ctrl-alt-f2

[   46.104927] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog 
permanently...
[   46.104939] vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the 
hardware performance
[   46.104942] vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is 
active. You have to prevent
[   46.104945] vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
[   46.104948] vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid


any idea what it means?

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