At 14:06:06 on Friday Friday 19 March 2010, "Ken Schneider - openSUSE"
On 03/19/2010 04:14 AM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote: <snip>
an existing file is the same as having that file there.)
and I should do (from the directory containing the links: ln -sf vboxvfs /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxvfs.ko ln -sf vboxadd /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxadd
No. Check that the files really exist in /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/, and that there are no symlinks.
They don't, as I discovered yesterday after I wrote. Here is the search:
# find -name "vboxadd.ko" ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxadd.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxadd.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxadd.ko # find -name "vboxvfs.ko" ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxvfs.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxvfs.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxvfs.ko #
In fact, the directory /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/ doesn't exist.
Then that is not the installed/running kernel. uname -a will tell you the running kernel. And to rebuild the modules for Vbox run (as root) /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
:~> uname -a Linux poblano 2.6.27.45-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-02-22 16:49:47 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux :~> I think that's as it should be. The files that are missing are those that should be in those in the directory that is the target of the symlink, namely: ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/updates/vboxadd.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/updates/vboxvfs.ko but even that directory is missing. Please correct me so we are on the same page, and (so I don't screw up more because of the confusion) tell me if you are suggesting that I rebuild the modules.
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