So, i decided that instead of partitioning the Zombie’s hard drive for windows 2000 i’d just install virtualbox. great.
So, i try to install the RPM but it just tells me i need some PAM (wasn’t that a hardware component in some old atari computer?!) thing. Fine. i find that, and try to install it. it tells me it needs some GlibC thing. i’m getting a bit miffed. i find that and try to install it, it tells me it needs ‘Kernel headers’. i groan and die a little inside. How do i find the kernel headers and install them?
PoopskinTheLiar adjusted his/her AFB on Sunday 10 May 2009 21:56 to write:
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> So, i decided that instead of partitioning the Zombie’s hard drive for
> windows 2000 i’d just install virtualbox. great.
>
> So, i try to install the RPM but it just tells me i need some PAM
> (wasn’t that a hardware component in some old atari computer?!) thing.
> Fine. i find that, and try to install it. it tells me it needs some
> GlibC thing. i’m getting a bit miffed. i find that and try to install
> it, it tells me it needs ‘Kernel headers’. i groan and die a little
> inside. How do i find the kernel headers and install them?
>
>
How come YaST is not finding the deps for you?
You should not have to find them yourself unless you have no repo`s enabled?
Where did you get the virtualbox rpm from?
YaST or the virtualbox website?
A bit more info is needed here, even just the version of OpenSuSE might help
us.
syampillai adjusted his/her AFB on Sunday 10 May 2009 22:46 to write:
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> He must have got it from virtualbox.org
> That is the one tries to compile the kernel module.
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>
My Bad in that case, i got mine from virtualbox.org a couple of days ago (
new machine ) and installed the rpm, must admit I was either asleep or
something as I cannot remember it compiling anything*.
I do have a fully prepped kernel source tree though so it might have been so
quick I missed it
Well, i’m running 11.1 (Athlon 64, x86 SuSE…Is the A64 64-bit?), and i’ve been trying to install the dependancies from RPM resource glibc-devel. I did in fact run the RPM to install VirtualBox from their website.
Also, i’m used to MS virtual PC 2007. is VirtualBox similar to it as far as interface goes?
Then why do you try to install RPMs for Fedora/Mandriva or older SuSE-versions on your openSUSE 11.1-Box?
Great way to fsck up your system in a very short period of time.
You have a package manager which is exactly the tool meant to be used for installing software, so (get) use(d to) it and please stop with those windows-type methods of “Searching and downloading whatever I find on the net” (especially when it its obviously not matching your system).
MAIN COMPUTER: 4x4 - 4gb RAM, 4 core processor @ 2.40ghz. Running
Windows Vista X64.
SPARE/MAIN2 computer: Zombie - 512mb RAM, unicore processor @ 2.2ghz.
Running OpenSuSE
and i wonder if we need sit back and wait for you to get a Win2000
image running in VirtualBox on Zombie and then hear your complaint
that it don’t run so good…maybe followed by something like: Linux
sucks…
since openSUSE 11.1 takes most (or ALL) of your 512mb RAM, why don’t
you put the VM on the strong machine and run W2000 there??
Indeed. I think it’s stupid. The way you plan it, and to run W2000. This is all a waste of time. As we can see from the posts there’s an already messed up system, caused by thoughtless banging around, while cursing and swearing about linux. A first reaction RTFM had been sufficient.
