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
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