[arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

[Leandro Inacio]

Dude look that deps, depends=('libxmu' 'gcc' 'make' 'kernel26-headers')

You need kernel26-headers, some issues about new kernel series [1].
And some comments about that (virtualbox bin) in [2].

[1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/477/


[2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753


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Leandro Inácio


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 18:47, richard terry <rterry at pacific.net.au> wrote:

> 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.
>