On Thursday 18 June 2009 04:17:33 am Stan Goodman wrote:
I have got VirtualBox installed on my OS v11.1, have configured a VM for WinXP, and am now ready to install the XP guest. VB sees my CDROM drive, and the XP disk is in the drive.
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***** # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module, NOT. It has been packaged. done Starting VirtualBox kernel module failed (No suitable module for running kernel found) # /
Stan, I'm sure you have it fixed by now, but if not, here is the short version: (1) Check "lsmod | grep vbox" If you don't see: 18:06 alchemy:~> lsmod | grep vbox vboxnetflt 122220 0 vboxdrv 1719660 1 vboxnetflt then your driver isn't loaded. (2) You did the right thing with /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup (or rcvboxdrv setup). If the compile of the driver failed, you have problem with your compile tools. I seriously recommend with all openSuSE installs, that in yast either during install or after, install the patterns for (Yast2 -> SW Management -> Patterns) "Base Development", "C/C++ Development", "Linux Kernel Development" and "Console Tools". This will insure you have the necessary compilers as well as the kernel source (against which to compile needed modules) in the event that you need to compile modules for something (VirtualBox in your case) (3) Additionally, I use the virtualbox package from virtualbox.org and I have not had any problems: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (4) When installing XP, why not just create an .iso image to install from. Then just choose the option in virtualbox to mount CD-ROM image instead of the actual CD-ROM drive (you are legally able to create a backup of your XP install media -- and the install goes much faster ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org