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? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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