Hello, this is my first post in the forums, before i usually managed to get my answers using search, but apparently i’m out of luck this time. I just started fully using opensuse 11.1 for two months, and have been using xp since it’s birth…
I got a problem regarding virtualbox upgrade in opensuse 11.1, i used to use vbox 2.06, then two days ago i found out about the 2.2 version, i decided to upgrade it using 1 click install.
I. First i removed the 2.0 ,then i used the package search for vbox 2.2 and do the 1 click install, but strangely, after instalation i tried to run vbox again, then i found out i got the 2.06 again and my virtual machines won’t run even when i used /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup .
Since the repo is already included, i tried upgrading all the packages including virtualbox-ose-kmp-default & pae & trace. then yast outomatically included a new kernel if i’m not mistaken. But again no result, the virtual machines still won’t start, unfortunately i forgot to write down the errors.
II. now the real problem starts, when i tried to install it again, everytime it would only install the 2.06 version which now is not working too, and it won’t even starts, instead it pops out this error
Could not load the settings file ‘/root/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml’.
Cannot convert settings from version ‘1.7-linux’.
The source version is not supported.
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
VirtualBox
Interface:
IVirtualBox {557a07bc-e6ae-4520-a361-4a8493199137}
. when i tried to clean up everything, one file pops up a warning, it’s virtualbox-ose-kmp-trace, it warned about this if i tried to remove it.
downgrade of kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.21-0.1.2.i568 to kernel-pae-base2.6.27-9.1,i586
downgrade of kernel-pae-2.6.27.21-0.1.2.i568 to kernel-pae-base2.6.27-9.1,i586
downgrade of kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.21-0.1.2.i568 to kernel-pae-base-extra-2.6.27-9.1,i586
and something about dazuko…
I have tried installing it manually too using the files from vbox site, both the rpm and the binary results in the following errors consecutively :
- Following packages haven’t been found on the medium:
VirtualBox, which results in nothing installed, it happens on every vbox version i tried, i also confirmed that it only happens on vbox files since i can install other things just by clicking on it as usual. - Using the binary it creates an folder in system>emulators> and installs two things Virtual Machine (Sun Virtualbox) and Virtualbox OSE, which have different settings, the first does not recognize my previous settings, and the OSE does. both is vbox 2.2.
Then after i tried it out, both results in the same error :
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Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {13420cbb-175a-4456-85d0-301126dfdec7}
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
when i tried the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup, this happens :
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
this is what appears in the log :
Makefile:167: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
I found out too in vbox forum that one ubuntu 8.10 user had the same error, and a member recomemded trying /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. but i do not know if it works for him or not since there are no reply.
and now, in yast my vbox installation does not came up on search, but it still left the virtualbox-ose-kmp-trace, btw it’s still for vbox 2.06 version file.
Ok, to make it short, my question is this :
1.If i remove it, meaning i do downgrade it, would it bust my suse ? I had format it back and forth to fix various errors before, and i’d rather not do it again for a while.
2.Can anyone help me to fix the error ? i’m still quite new here, i don’t know where the kernel is located yet.
Please help me =( . I’m totally stuck here, and i need the vbox.
i thought i already posted these, but i can’t fin it on the forums, did i made i mistake ???