f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8

[Joshua Andrews]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Andre Robatino <robatino at fedoraproject.org>
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 3:47 PM
> Subject: f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8
> 
> Joshua Andrews <woodguy552010 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>   I managed to mount the guest additions ISO as you mentioned and build
> the kernel modules before I
>>  converted the filesystem but since the conversion and updating the kernel
> the modules will no longer build.
>> 
>>  The complaint is that it can't find the kernel source but that 
> hasn't changed.
> I suspect it has to do with
>>  modules being in /usr/lib. I didn't really spend much time tracking the
> problem.
> 
> It still works for me after the conversion. Make sure that you updated all
> kernel* packages, not just the kernel. I think it needs the matching version of
> kernel-devel.
> 
> 

I found the problem was that /usr/src did not have the link 'linux' pointing to the current source. I don't know if that's a bug or what.

#ln -s kernels/`uname -r` linux

It built the modules but not the video of course.

-J