"On 11:52:22 pm Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> said"
At this point I'll take the opportunity to thank everyone for providing me with most useful advice on how to go about getting VB up and running.
I am glad to read that you are reviewing the wiki pages re VB. May I suggest that you take into account Clayton's, Ken Schneider's comment about using *full* name of the VB RPM from SUN, and also the instructions given by David Rankin in his post in this ML dated 8 Feb 2008 titled, "A Quick Start - VirtualBox Howto".
One of my personal peeves about VB and around which I cannot wrap my brain is the ability to access from oS the files sitting in any of the partitions created in the Windows virtual disc (.VirtualBox) by apps. installed in VB. If that could be made more understandable then this would be great.
Right now, I have VB installed as well as XP. However, I still haven't got something correct because I am not able to have XP display in the full resolution (1920x1080) of my monitor - and which I was able to do, if I recall correctly, a few years ago.
BC
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Ok, I have been following this thread for a bit and decided to try an install. It looks like it failed because it did not d/l the correct kernel headers or any at all and I am not sure why. Tnx, Mike Hopefully this info will help with a suggestion on how to procede. I am running opensuse 11.1 on amd 64. uname -a Linux MIKE-C521 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux install info: The following NEW packages are going to be installed: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_openSUSE111-1.x86_64 (Plain RPM files cache, Sun Microsystems, Inc.) glibc-devel-2.9-2.12.1.x86_64 (openSUSE-11.1-Update, openSUSE) linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28.noarch (openSUSE 11.1-0, openSUSE) pam-devel-1.0.2-13.4.x86_64 (openSUSE 11.1-0, openSUSE) Overall download size: 44.7 M. After the operation, additional 125.1 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]: yes committing Retrieving package linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28.noarch (1/4), 668.0 K (2.4 M unpacked) Installing: linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 [done] Additional rpm output: post linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97697 1 `usr/include/asm' -> `asm-x86' Retrieving package glibc-devel-2.9-2.12.1.x86_64 (2/4), 4.6 M (29.7 M unpacked) Retrieving: glibc-devel-2.9-2.12.1.x86_64.rpm [done (12.5 K/s)] Installing: glibc-devel-2.9-2.12.1 [done] Retrieving package pam-devel-1.0.2-13.4.x86_64 (3/4), 62.0 K (86.0 K unpacked) Installing: pam-devel-1.0.2-13.4 [done] Retrieving package VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_openSUSE111-1.x86_64 (4/4), 39.4 M (92.9 M unpacked) Installing: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_openSUSE111-1 [done] Additional rpm output: warning: /var/tmp/TmpDir.II7o3y/VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6dfbcbae Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log. Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found. Install them and execute /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root. committingCommitResult 4 (errors 0, remaining 0, srcremaining 0) MIKE-C521:/home/ka1ifq/Documents/FF_DL # more /var/log/vbox-install.log ** Compiling vboxdrv Makefile:179: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make a ain. Stop. -- 2.6.27.39-0.2-default GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org