[Fedora] Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Walter Cazzola <cazzola at dico.unimi.it> 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

Do you have the dkms package installed on your system?  With it a new vbox kernel module should automatically be rebuilt when the kernel is updated.  I have it installed on my Fedora 12 64-bit system and it works just fine.  Of course, you'll need to have gcc, kernel-headers, includes, etc. for it to work.

This may help:

   http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#id2649309

Also, installing the VirtualBox repo will help, too, but it's not necessary.  I have it turned off on my system, since I only use VBox for testing and evaluating OSes and software.  So, I don't really need the latest release.

B