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Re: [opensuse] virtualbox can not start (after kernel pae update?)
  • From: Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:57:18 -0400
  • Message-id: <4A6FC89E.2060205@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hawit pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
suddenly my VirtualBox 3.0.2 can not start. so as root i run

s6420:~ # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep virtual
s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.25-0.1.1
kernel-pae-2.6.27.25-0.1.1
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28
kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.25-0.1.1

I hv reinstalled VirtualBox, linux-kernel-headers but doesnt help. any idea?


It looks like you forgot to install the kernel-source package.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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