On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:46:05 +0100 Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I am pretty sure about that, because I first tried by simply installing kernel-source, did not work. Then "make menuconfig", did not work. Then "make", and after that, about 2 hours later, "setup" worked. I used the DVD version of opensuse 11.2 btw (i.e. not a download version), just in case that makes a difference... > There is an open ticket http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5468, > are you the same reporter? No, I am not the reporter of the ticket. > > Another thing I had to find out: the user registration is a gameplay of its > > own. I thought I knew the password, but it did not work. So I choose to > > re-register ... which does not work either (gives me two "IP='xxx'" lines > > and exits). > > That's another unrelated problem. Right. My suggestion is to make a choice to mail the password to the registered email address. Else there is no way to prevent multiple registrations. > Kind regards, > > Frank -- Regards, Stephan _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
