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I've installed a fresh installation of OpenSUSE 11.0 and when I have installed VirtualBox, it prompted me that it failed to start due to a driver model being missing. To ...
  1. 07-10-2008 #1
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    ./configure, make, make install is missing

    I've installed a fresh installation of OpenSUSE 11.0 and when I have installed VirtualBox, it prompted me that it failed to start due to a driver model being missing. To fix it, I needed to compile it. No problems.

    I go in Konsole, type /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

    This is what I got:
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    Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                                 done
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                              failed
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
    I went to the log and to my surprise, I saw:
    make: No such file or directory.

    Then, I knew that my C compiler wasn't installed. So, I pop a visit in YaST, install gcc, and still nothing. There's no C compiler, and I've installed gcc!

    Is there anything that I've missed?
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    If this is a driver issue you will need the kernel-source also for the header files.
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  3. 07-10-2008 #3
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    I've installed kernel-source and I'm still stuck at the same place as before.
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    Type gcc at the command line. This is what you should see if gcc is installed

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    gogalthorp@linux1:~> gcc
gcc: no input files
gogalthorp@linux1:~>
    This is what you will see if it is not

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    bash: gcc: command not found
    Note in order to compile a driver module you will also need to be root!
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    Yep, gcc appears to work. I'm also being root when I install the module. It's just the ./configure, make and make install that won't go.
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    "make" is a separate thing from gcc, have you installed that?
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    I didn't install that. I didn't know they were seperate from each other. Thanks! Now, I have another problem. It's more severe:

    Each time I run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup, I get an error in the log and that error is this one:

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    Makefile:154: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
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  8. 07-10-2008 #8
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    as gogalthorpe mentioned earlier, you need to install either the source or the header files for the kernel you are running
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