Can't get vbox kernel module

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Here it’s me again with my kernel 2.6.36 upgrade adventures :shame:
I have been trying to run my vmachines in virtualbox with no success so I decided to install upgraded packages for upgraded kernel, this means to install them from Virtualization-kernel-HEAD repo.

The error is about that known issue where the kernel module can’t start. So when I try ‘sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’ the result is:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 83: log_daemon_msg: command not found
 done.                                                                                                                            done
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 83: log_daemon_msg: command not found
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 281: /usr/share/%PACKAGE%/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: No such file or directory
 done.                                                                                                                            done
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 83: log_daemon_msg: command not found
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 299: /usr/share/%PACKAGE%/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: No such file or directory

Failed, trying without DKMS                                                                                                       failed
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 83: log_daemon_msg: command not found

Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong                                                                     failed

Currently I’m booting with desktop kernel 2.6.36 (multiple kernels).

hernan@hernan-CL:~> rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-pae-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-pae-devel-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-source-2.6.35.1-1.1.noarch
kernel-pae-devel-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-desktop-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-source-2.6.36-90.1.noarch
kernel-default-devel-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-devel-2.6.35.1-1.1.noarch
kernel-syms-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-syms-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.35.1-1.1.i586
kernel-desktop-2.6.34.7-0.4.1.i586
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-default-devel-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.36-90.1.i586
kernel-firmware-20100617-24.2.noarch
kernel-devel-2.6.36-90.1.noarch

hernan@hernan-CL:~> rpm -q make gcc linux-glibc-devel
make-3.81-135.1.i586
gcc-4.5-4.2.i586
linux-glibc-devel-2.6.32-3.3.noarch

The virtualbox installation log shows me again:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 303: /usr/share/%PACKAGE%/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: No such file or directory

Thanks in advance!

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Any suggestion?
I have found that the vboxdrv script is not working well on my system. The error: ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 83: log_daemon_msg: command not found’ refers to

begin_msg() {
        log_daemon_msg "$@"
    }

Has someone successfully installed virtualbox in openSUSE 11.3 with kernel 2.6.36??

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i am also trying to get it to work. same errors

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i was using virtualbox-ose from the repos but for some reason it wont work on 2.6.36 so i downloaded the rmp from virtualbox website and now everythign works :slight_smile: