Tom Patton wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 00:04 -0200, CF wrote:
Adam Jimerson wrote:
I installed VirtualBox OSE off the OSS repositories and I have all of its dependencies installed, or the ones that I know I was following the instructions from the VirtualBox End-User Guide and the wiki article about it http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox_Installation. After getting everything set up it works fine until I reboot my system, it seems the vboxdrv kernel module or /dev/vboxdrv does not like to stay installed on my system. In order to use VirtualBox I have to run the vboxdrv setup command everytime I restart or turn on my machine.
When you install VBox package from OSS repo, you need to load VBox kernel module manually, as root user, every time you use VBox, or set the kernel module to be automatically loaded at boot through YaST2 -> System Configuration.
correct
However, none of this is required if you install VBox package directly from http://www.virtualbox.org/
Are you sure? I'm running the suse10.3 rpm package from their site (for the USB support), and still have to modprobe the vboxdrv module to run it...why do you say it isn't required? I believe you will find that you do need the module, and will even have to re-compile it when/if you update the kernel..by ===> (the command "/etc/init.d/vboxdrive setup", and is quite automatic.)
Tom in NM
With the binary from the virtualbox site, you simply install the rpm and it takes care of the kernel and everything else. You only have to run the module loader once and once after each kernel change. Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org