On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:20:10 +0100 "S. Brandt" <[email protected]> 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. I talked about joe-average-user. And if you look at your explanation what to do to make the vbox compilation work I kindly ask how I or any other average user should know that. Would you tell the same to an average windows user while installing OpenOffice or something the like? One thing that makes vbox successful is that it's easy to install and use. But on openSuSE 11.2 it is not, and that's just all I would like to point out. Experienced users always find some way to rome... > Hope this helps, > yours, > Sebastian -- Regards, Stephan _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
