On Sunday 14 June 2009 01:04:03 pm Stan Goodman wrote:

At 17:38:36 on Sunday Sunday 14 June 2009, Masaru Nomiya ..

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Have you installed kernel-headers?

kernel-headers is indeed present. But the VirtualBox User Manual, mentions that file only for Ubuntu and Debian. On the other hand, what is mentioned for openSuSE are kernel-source and kernel-syms, and the latter of these was missing. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, which would have been difficult for me to find from the error message and the log entry that I was given. ...

In general kernel-headers are used to compile applications, For any modules you need headers in current kernel-sources. So far I recall message from factory ML with 11.2 there will be kernel-devel package that is much smaller and it will contain all files necessary to compile modules. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

At 22:02:16 on Sunday Sunday 14 June 2009, "Carlos E. R." wrote:

On Sunday, 2009-06-14 at 17:27 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:

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I am also confused about the question about the kernel module. There was no such err when I installed the preceding version. I see in YaST that there is a short list of kernel modules for the ose version of VirtualBox, but what I have here is what I downloaded from the Sun site.

Why didn't you install the buildservice version of virtual box, also at 2.2.4 version, which would probably have installed the kernel modules needed?

Do you mean the version that is on YaST? I knew about that, but I had recommendations here on this forum suggesting that I prefer the full version (not the freebie) on the program's website. The one that one gets through the repository is the freebie. Probably it wouldn't make much difference for me, since I don't plan to be a big user of the WinXP that intend to install as a vm, but that is the reason that I did what I did. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

On Sunday, 2009-06-14 at 17:27 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:

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I am also confused about the question about the kernel module. There was no such err when I installed the preceding version. I see in YaST that there is a short list of kernel modules for the ose version of VirtualBox, but what I have here is what I downloaded from the Sun site.

Why didn't you install the buildservice version of virtual box, also at 2.2.4 version, which would probably have installed the kernel modules needed?

USB support most likely. It's not in the version in the repo.

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

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