Re: VirtualBox on Fedora 14

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On 12/08/2010 01:30 PM, S Mathias wrote:
> Ok, so after a fresh install:
> 
> yum install dkms kernel-devel
> sync
> sync
> sync
> reboot
> wget
> "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo";
> -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo
> wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
> -O oracle_vbox.asc
> rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
> rm oracle_vbox.asc
> yum update
> yum install VirtualBox-3.2
> 
> And here comes the part, thats not 100%
> 
> # service vboxdrv setup
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]
> Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules            [  OK  ]
> Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
> Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE cannot be
> found at
> /lib/modules/2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE/build or
> /lib/modules/2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE/source.
>                                                            [FAILED]
>   (Failed, trying without DKMS)
> Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                      [FAILED]
>   (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
> 
> 
> # ls /usr/src/kernels/
> 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686
> [root@a yum.repos.d]#
> 
> !! -> so the "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE" is MISSING!
> 
> Where can i download it?
> 
> p.s.: I recently installed the PAE kernel by:
> 
> yum install kernel-PAE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On *Wed, 12/8/10, Richard Shaw /<hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: Re: VirtualBox on Fedora 14
>     To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 6:58 PM
> 
>     On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, S Mathias <smathias1972@xxxxxxxxx
>     </mc/compose?to=smathias1972@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>         Good evening list! :)
> 
>         I'm searching for two answers regarding two questions. [and
>         there are two "P.S."'s]
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Q1: How can i list all the available kernel modules?
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Q2: I want to install VirtualBox on Fedora 14 [->how could i
>         download the kernel source?]:
> 
>         wget -q
>         http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
>         -O oracle_vbox.asc
>         rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
>         rm oracle_vbox.asc virtualbox.rpm
> 
> 
>     Everything OK so far...
>      
> 
>         wget $(wget -q "http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads";
>         -O - | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' | awk
>         '/fedora14/ && /686/ {print}') -O virtualbox.rpm
>         rpm -i virtualbox.rpm
> 
> 
>     You're making things hard on yourself. Follow this link[1] and setup
>     the yum repository. Then installing is as simple as:
> 
>     # yum install VirtualBox-3.2
> 
>     The other packages you need is the kernel headers (not the whole
>     source) and dkms (dynamic kernel module support), i.e.:
> 
>     # yum install kernel-devel dkms
>      
> 
> 
>         And then, the fun part:
> 
>         # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
> 
> 
>         [snip]
> 
> 
>     Try "service vboxdrv setup" instead. Not really the problem but from
>     what I've read it's a more appropriate method. 
>      
> 
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         P.S. 1: This is not working [bug on virtualbox.org
>         <http://virtualbox.org> website? ]:
>         # wget -q
>         http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
>         -O- | rpm --import -
>         error: -: import read failed(-1).
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         P.S. 2: When i wanted to install VirtualBox, i tried this [when
>         running in to the kernel source "issue"]:
>         http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/20689-donwload-kernel-source-using-yum.html#post549910
> 
>         But when i'm here:
> 
>         # yumdownloader -e core-source -e updates-source --source kernel
>         Usage: "yumdownloader [options] package1 [package2] [package..]
> 
>         CRITICAL:yum.cli:Command line error: option -e: invalid integer
>         value: 'core-source'
> 
>         ..it gives an error :O so i wanted to:
> 
>         yum remove rpmdevtools yum-utils
> 
>         ->
>         http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Y8y0YjLG
> 
>         Is it safe to remove "anaconda"?
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>     You don't want to just download it, you want to install it. But as I
>     said, you don't need the whole source, just the headers which is
>     provided by the kernel-devel package. 
> 
> 
>         Thank you in advance! :\ [sorry, i'm a beginner in Fedora :\ ]
> 
> 
>     No problem! 
> 
>     Richard
> 
>     [1]
>     http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo 
> 
> 

yum install kernel-headers kernel-PAE-devel




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