[arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

richard terry rterry at pacific.net.au
Fri Jan 8 16:47:10 EST 2010


hi List,

I've upgraded to kernel  2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work.

I looked at the wiki re the various methods of upgrading the driver:

[root at laptop pkg]# vbox_build_module
Building vboxdrv for Linux 2.6.32-ARCH
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log 
generic math/gcc; \
            do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxdrv* .tmp_ver* vboxdrv.* Module.symvers Modules.symvers 
modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log 
generic math/gcc; \
            do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxnetflt* .tmp_ver* vboxnetflt.* Modules.symvers modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt'
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log 
generic math/gcc; \
            do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done
rm -rf .vboxnetadp* .tmp_ver* vboxnetadp.* Modules.symvers modules.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp'
rm -f vboxdrv.ko vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko
*** Building 'vboxdrv' module ***
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux 
kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv'
make: *** [all] Error 2


kernel-headers-2.6.32-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz is installed.

Any help appreciated.


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