VirtualBox 3.0.2 on openSUSE 11.1

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I have installed VirtualBox 3.0.2 rpm from VirtualBox site but when I try to lunch some system on VB it tells me “Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)” so I run as root:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

but it shows:

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

vbox-install.log:

Makefile:174: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.

I didn’t find the solution anywhere… :\

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Make sure you have kernel-source installed
su terminal

zypper in kernel-source
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Lol :slight_smile: Thanks for help :slight_smile:

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Happy that was the answer;)

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I have the same problem. I ran zypper as recomended. But the problem still there… :frowning:
Any idea?

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You need to be more specific as to what you have done, what you have and what is happening or Not as the case may be.

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from ordos_lider

"I have the same problem. I ran zypper as recomended. But the problem still there…
Any idea? "

I still having the original problem…
from this page Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config (View topic) • virtualbox.org

sudo zypper in kernel-syms

this will install the packages

Now mine it’s working

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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:36:01 GMT, hejimar
<hejimar@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>from ordos_lider
>
>"I have the same problem. I ran zypper as recomended. But the problem
>still there…
>Any idea? "
>
>
>I still having the original problem…
>from this page ‘Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config
>(View topic) • virtualbox.org’
>(http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15679)
>
>
>sudo zypper in kernel-syms
>
>
>this will install the packages
>
>
>Now mine it’s working

This is the second case of installing kernel-syms was the solution to
installing / using some other package recently.

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JosephKK wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:36:01 GMT, hejimar
> <hejimar@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>from ordos_lider
>>
>>"I have the same problem. I ran zypper as recomended. But the problem
>>still there…
>>Any idea? "
>>
>>
>>I still having the original problem…
>>from this page ‘Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config
>>(View topic) • virtualbox.org’
>>(http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15679)
>>
>>
>>sudo zypper in kernel-syms
>>
>>
>>this will install the packages
>>
>>
>>Now mine it’s working
>
> This is the second case of installing kernel-syms was the solution to
> installing / using some other package recently.

This is one case where adding another repo to the list has resulted in
resolving a lot of PITA issues. I added:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.1 to my repo list
and all the nonsense with VBox updates went away - it just works.

I’m using the AMD x86_64 version but the repo setup seems to detect the
proper version. Haven’t looked at 11.2 in any detail and probably won’t -
too many issues for my taste - but I checked and there is an 11.2 path on
the download site. Watching the messages during update, it takes care of
the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv update and reload process which means the rpm
likely has dependencies that will pull in the kernel stuff if missing.
That’s the most common issue I see with VBox updates here.

–
Will Honea