VirtualBox 2.0.2, another "spawning session" problem

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I’ve ‘successfully’ installed VirtualBox 2.0.2 on OpenSuse 11, KDE 4.1.

following the install I’ve created one “machine” for WinXP. The machine is shown as “powered off” initially. When I click Start I see a small window with a progress bar and the words “spawning session”. The bar remains at 0% indefinitely, and VirtualBox freezes. I can only stop it by using ctrl-esc and killing the virtualbox process.

Up to this point my problem is similar to the many, many other nearly identical posts on this and other forums, however I think I’ve got a new variation of the problem and would appreciate some help.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far.

(Installed, tried and uninstalled both 2.0.2 (sun) and 1.1.6 (ose) repeatedly with similar results)

As suggested on other forums, I’ve uninstalled VirtualBox, installed kernel-sources and reinstalled. Then reinstalled VirtualBox 2.0.2 and run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

the resulting output is:

Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

Here’s the entire content of vbox-install.log:

/usr/share/virtualbox/src/build_in_tmp: line 99: make: command not found.

I’m a relative newbie to Linux, but I’ve tried to figure this out for a full day+ so far, so it’s time for some help please…

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Besides kernel-sources, you need these packages:

make, gcc, pam_devel, libxml2, libxslt and some others like python which are probably installed already. Anyway if you do:

rpm -Uhv VirtualBox…rpm

it will tell you what else is missing.

… means the long part of the RPM filename that I can’t be bothered typing in, not that you should type … in.

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additional data:

from /usr/share/virtualbox/build_in_tmp

97 # make, cleanup if success
98 cd “$tmpdir”
99 if make “$@”; then

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rpm -Uhv VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_openSUSE11-1.i586.rpm
error: open of VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_openSUSE11-1.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory

did I misunderstand your instruction?

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disregard last post, I found my mistake.

I’ve now installed all ex. pam_devel and libxsit. unable to find either but still working on it.

results so far:

rpm -Uhv /home/greyshark/RPMs/VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_openSUSE11-1.i586.rpm

Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_openSUSE11-1 is already installed

problem continues to occur, no change.

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You have to remove VirtualBox first, then try to reinstall it, at which point it will tell you what the missing dependencies are.

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eureka!, thanx for your help.