[Fedora] Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

[Steven Stern]

On 09/22/2010 01:04 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Greg Woods wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:01 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> 
>>> Unfortunately the last two kernel upgrades (2.6.34.6-54 and 2.6.34.7-56)
>>> didn't correspond to an upgrade of the kernel modules necessary by
>>> virtualbox (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, and vboxnetadp); this impedes the
>>> normal behavior of virtualbox.
> 
>> Did you try running "service vboxdrv setup"? That should cause it to
>> build kernel modules for the running kernel. I have to do this every
>> time I do a kernel update.
> 
> unfortunately I can't do, when I try I get:
> 
>   >service vboxdrv setup
>   vboxdrv: unrecognized service
> 
> Walter
> 


Try

   /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

If that works, then chkconfig has forgotten about VirtualBox, so

   chkconfig --add vboxdrv

-- 
-- Steve