Am Samstag, 23. September 2023, 22:42:33 CEST schrieb cagsm:
Dear Support,
opensuse makes me feel like i am a real and utter noob. thanks for always bringing me back to eating humle pie.
trying virtualbox for the first time (15.5) - no current kernel-default-devel or what am I doing wrongly?
a now-current leap 15.5 has booting and running the following
Linux 5.14.21-150500.55.22-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Sep 6 08:41:01 UTC 2023 (1e6fbaf) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
---------- rpm -aq | grep -i kernel- | sort kernel-default-5.14.21-150500.55.19.1.x86_64 kernel-default-5.14.21-150500.55.22.1.x86_64 kernel-default-devel-5.14.21-150500.55.19.1.x86_64 kernel-default-extra-5.14.21-150500.55.19.1.x86_64 kernel-default-extra-5.14.21-150500.55.22.1.x86_64 kernel-default-optional-5.14.21-150500.55.19.1.x86_64 kernel-default-optional-5.14.21-150500.55.22.1.x86_64 kernel-devel-5.14.21-150500.55.19.1.noarch
-------- rpm -aq | grep -i virtualb | sort virtualbox-7.0.10-lp155.2.5.1.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-tools-7.0.10-lp155.2.5.1.x86_64 virtualbox-host-source-7.0.10-lp155.2.5.1.noarch virtualbox-kmp-default-7.0.10_k5.14.21_150500.55.7-lp155.2.5.1.x86_64 virtualbox-qt-7.0.10-lp155.2.5.1.x86_64
----------- sudo /usr/sbin/vboxconfig [sudo] password for root: Building kernel modules...
Build of VirtualBox host kernel modules failed. Look at /var/log/virtualbox.log to find reasons.
virtualbox.log shows error: === Building 'vboxdrv' module === make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv' /usr/src/kernel-modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv/Makefile-header.gmk:250: *** Error: unable to find the headers of the Linux kernel to build against (KERN_DIR=/lib/modules/5.14.21-1505 00.55.22-default/build). Specify KERN_VER=<version> (currently 5.14.21-150500.55.22-default) and run Make again. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-modules/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv' make: *** [Makefile:77: vboxdrv] Error 2 /var/log/virtualbox.log lines 1-5/5 (END)
---------------- kernel-default-devel doesnt match the kernel-default
version number. kernel-default came like few days ago. wondering if devel been forgotton to bring in new release?
or am I misunderstanding this situation? is it really this hard to run a virtualbox host on opensuse? ty
Why do you want to install kernel-devel if you are using the Virtualbox packages from openSUSE? Stephan