On Friday 09 April 2010 07:26:23 am oleksandr korneta wrote: > on 04/08/2010 04:34 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > On Thursday 08 April 2010 01:48:33 pm oleksandr korneta wrote: > >> cannot recompile VirtualBox driver module after recent kernel update > >> > >> $ rpm -qa | grep kernel > >> kernel-2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64 > >> kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 > >> kernel-firmware-2.6.32.10-90.fc12.noarch > >> abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.8-2.fc12.x86_64 > >> kernel-headers-2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64 > >> kernel-devel-2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64 > >> kernel-devel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 > >> > >> it says > >> > >> sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup > >> Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ] > >> Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED] > >> > >> (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) > >> > >> vbox-install.log is attached > >> > >> anybody else is seeing this? Is there a cure? > >> > >> regards, > > > > Hi, > > > > Im curious why you use virtualbox and not kvm/libvirt/virt-manager that > > are included by default in fedora? Im just trying to work out what is > > lacking in the default offerings that you go to a third party. > > perhaps because at the time started looking for ways to run a virtual > machine (quite recently) top ten hits in google were howtos on > virtualbox an not on kvm. And since you've asked, I just looked around > and found out that my machine does not support hardware virtualization > (Opteron dual core). what do you get for "cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep svm" what model cpus do you have? i have a pair of dual dual core opterons they run kvm great. one of them has 12gb ram and has 13 guests running on it currently, I do agree we need to come up with a way to support hardware that does not have hardware virtualisation better. there is the kqemu kernel module in rpmfusion that will give you accelerated virtualisation using tools that are native in fedora for the rest. I bring it up because it seems vmware and virtual box regularly break because there kernel modules don't build and you are left on your own to fix it. Dennis
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