For anyone who might be curious about such things (even morbidly), the latest in the saga... reinstalled pae kernel, switched to using /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start because apparently the 'setup' in the distribution is hardcoded to not try to compile stuff (which makes sense, if I stop to think about it) got an error message about /usr/lib/modules/2.6.35-12-0ae/updates/vboxdrv.ko missing, reinstalled the host-kmp and could modprobe in vboxdrv (getting closer... ) now getitng an error that /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-pae/updates/vboxnetflt.ko is a bad file. spider:~ # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start Starting VirtualBox kernel module failed (modprobe vboxnetflt failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why) spider:~ # file /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-pae/updates/vboxnetflt.ko /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-pae/updates/vboxnetflt.ko: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped spider:~ # modprobe vboxnetflt FATAL: Error inserting vboxnetflt (/lib/modules/2.6.34-12-pae/updates/vboxnetflt.ko): Invalid module format dmesg: [ 1201.874844] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. [ 1201.874855] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.6_OSE (interface 0x00140001). [ 1211.808736] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [ 1217.970657] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [ 1636.350752] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [ 1649.111603] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org