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I have fedora 10 on an AMD X64 desktop. I installed sunvirtualbox on it, in the intention to install windows . After define the virtual hdd in the virtual box, when i give start, I receive error asying that the source for the kernel cannot be find and the virtualbox cannot be configured. Practically, the virtualbox kernel module refuse to load.
I use virtualbox version 222 r46594.
Any ideas ? Help !
I installed virtualbox, then when I tried to uninstall with the add-remove i received the same error thet I mentioned. I will try what you sugessted and I will tell you what happend.
I give the following commands with the following effects:
rpm --rebuilddb
and it works.
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers
and it works
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
and it works
rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.2.2_46594_fedora9-1.x86_64.rpm
and it works
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
and i obtained the following:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module [ OK ]
Removing old VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]
(Cannot create device /dev/vboxdrv with major 10 and minor 59)
Finally I just start the VB from the menu and it seem to work ! It recognise the DVD, it tried to install XP, but from some reason, the installation was cancelled. I will try to set different the virtual unit that was created with VB.
Thank you all !
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