sun virtual box problems
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 ! |
Install the kernel sources. Package names are kernel-devel and kernel-headers.
Code:
# yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers |
When I give the command
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers I receive the error rpmdb open failed |
for yum you will need an internet-connection.
Do you have one ? Maybe try ping linux.com |
Quote:
Code:
rpm --rebuilddb |
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.
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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) Now what ????? |
What kernel is the system running? Can you post the exact output of uname -a?
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Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 20 22:47:23 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Ok, thanks. No problem with the kernel version. Does the character device /dev/vboxdrv already exist? If yes try to remove it
Code:
rm /dev/vboxdrv |
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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