Frank Mehnert schrieb: > On Monday 16 November 2009, S. Brandt wrote: >> Frank Mehnert schrieb: >>> Stephan, >>> >>> On Sunday 15 November 2009, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >>>> today I found out that vbox together with opensuse 11.2 is nothing for >>>> unexperienced users. Besides the fact of accepting to use the 11.1 >>>> version the modules have to be compiled by "setup". Unfortunately this >>>> only works out if you install the kernel-sources _and_ compile them >>>> (which may take hours). That is really tough for joe-average-user. >>> are you sure that one has to compile the kernel sources? If so >>> then this is definitely different from openSUSE 11.1 where it >>> was sufficient to install kernel-source and kernel-*-base to get >>> the correct dependencies. >> Hi! >> You don't need to compile the sources, just prepare them correctly. >> Especially, you need Module.symvers from the -obj dir. >> >> cd /usr/src/linux >> cp ../linux-2.6.27.37-0.1-obj/x86_64/default/Module.symvers . >> cp ../linux-2.6.27.37-0.1-obj/x86_64/default/.config . >> make oldconfig prepare scripts >> (of course, version needs to be adjusted, and x86_64 may be wrong for you). >> >> Then you should be able to compile kernel modules. >> With opensuse 11.0, the symvers were not needed. Since 11.1, it seems >> they are. > > Are you guys sure that you installed the proper kernel-*-devel > package? Hi! In 11.1, kernel-default-devel is only in some build service kernel versions - Kernel:linux-next/openSUSE_11.1, etc.
Good to know that 11.2 does no longer need me to configure this manually ... I still don't dare to upgrade, though ;) Anyway, build service is the way to go for the average joe. Thanks, Sebastian _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
