Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1480 mails)

[lynn <lynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/25/2012 10:58 PM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
> On 03/25/2012 10:07 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
> >  Here's what I get as root with /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> > > > > > > > > > Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel 
> > > > > > > > > > modules                      done
> > > > > > > > > > Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using 
> > > > > > > > > > DKMS          failed
> > > > > > > > > >   (Failed, trying without DKMS)
> > > > > > > > > > Recompiling VirtualBox kernel 
> > > > > > > > > > modules                                failed
> > > > > > > > > >   (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
> > > > > > > > > Stopping VirtualBox kernel 
> > > > > > > > > modules                                   done
> > > > > > > > >     What does all this mean. Hope I didn't mess things up too 
> > > > > > > > > seriously. Tks again
> > > > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > > > It means it can't compile the kernel modules. You need to 
> > > > > > > > install kernel-devel, make and gcc.
> > > > > > > > HTH
> > > > > > > > L x 
>
> > > > > > > >                     Hi It is the 25th and I have trouble with 
> > > > > > > > getting anywhere with the start arrow. Here's what comes up:  
> > > > > > > > Error box Failed to open a session for the virtual machine 
> > > > > > > > bbox. The virtual machine bbox has terminated unexpectedly 
> > > > > > > > during startup with exit code 1.  OK
> > Press OK and it is back to the start arrow again. Ticked the boxes in 
> > Yast as was suggested before for kernel-devel and others. They were 
> > already checked. and dkms is not in add/remove software. Using 
> > /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup gets the same thing as at the top of this 
> > email. So close but ...     :-)  Bob
> >
> >
> > > > > Have checked again and kernel-devel and gcc are installed but I'm 
> > > > > still stuck at the same place as above. Any way to get out of this 
> > > > > rut?    Bob
What is the output of:
getent group vboxusers

L x

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