[Novalug] speaking of virtualization ...

Beartooth beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Sun Apr 24 16:56:36 EDT 2011


On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Keith Howell wrote:

> Take a look at virtualbox.
>
> I run XP in a virtualbox machine with iTunes so that I can update my
> iphone OS.

 	Hmmm .... rpm -q says it's not installed; but, even with 
rpmfusion enabled, I get :

[root@Hbsk2 ~]# yum install virtualbox
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package virtualbox available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@Hbsk2 ~]#

 	So I did

[btth2@Hbsk2 sig]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686
kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686
kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686
[btth2@Hbsk2 sig]$

-- which didn't tell me much. Neither did lshw-gui, at least 
afaict.

 	I went to google-linux, found 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads, and got one for 
F14i386.

 	Then I did (all this on an expendable box) :

[root@Hbsk2 btth2]# rpm -Uvh 
VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.6_71344_fedora14-1.i686.rpm
warning: VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.6_71344_fedora14-1.i686.rpm: Header 
V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98ab5139: NOKEY
Preparing... 
########################################### [100%]
    1:VirtualBox-4.0 
########################################### [100%]

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that 
group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build 
one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to 
/var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK 
]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules            [  OK 
]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using 
DKMS[FAILED]
   (Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules 
[FAILED]
   (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
[root@Hbsk2 btth2]#

After

[root@Hbsk2 btth2]# cd /var/log/
[root@Hbsk2 log]# ls

I did cat vbox-install.log|most and got :

Makefile:169: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your 
current Linux kernel. $

 	Does all this tell me anything whatever about what will 
happen on my newest fastest biggest box??
-- 
Beartooth Senectoflatuloid, Neo-Redneck, Linux Convert
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