On Sunday 25 November 2007, Lawrence H. Nitz wrote: > Let me try to give you the text of the error message from memory, since > I won't be back at that machine for several hours. > > 1. On attempting to start a VM (power on), the prompts tell me to run > /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
The interesting thing here is the reason for that message box :) > 2. When I do that, the prompt tells me that vboxdrv is already running. Therefore I suppose that the versions are different, that is VirtualBox expects a different version of the kernel module. What is the output of find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name vboxdrv* ? > 3. When I run ps aux | grep VBoxSVC (or VB*, or vb*) no running > process appears except grep. > 4. I cannot find a line in the log which says either "failure" or > "error," but there may be something named in another way. > 5. I can run another recompile and look carefully at the log as it > rolls by to see if there is indeed some kind of failure in compilation > that I have missed. Oddly, though, the control screen comes up just fine. > > Let me ask a question that is backing up a bit--are there installations > running on Fedora 7? Or is it possible that > the raw newness of the Fedora releases always builds in features that > software developers cannot easily trace or debug? Our Fedora7 package was tested here a bit on a Fedora7 installation. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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