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[Richard Vickery]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 09:42 PM, Richard Vickery issued this missive:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern
>> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 on Virtualbox in linux, but I
>>>> haven't tried it myself
>>>
>>>
>>> I also have a Win8 VM and it's OK.  There's an issue where the screen
>>> doesn't get refreshed properly -- I have to press the Windows flag key
>>> to get it to redisplay itself.  (This PC came with Win8, so I
>>> virtualized it before blowing it away to install Fedora.  The XP VM is
>>> from this PC's predecessor.)
>>>
>>> --
>>> -- Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> I did a <sudo yum install> obviously without the braces shown here and
>> after install received the following error in /var/log:
>>
>> Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
>> Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stop.
>>
>> Where is the kernel? Shouldn't the install have known?
>
>
> Do you have the kernel-devel package installed? You need it to do stuff
> like that.
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I think I assume things like the kernel being installed after
downloading and burning the ISO, installing, and working with the
platform, though I have done fedup since 17/18. However:

 uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 6 13:41:07 UTC 2013 x86_64

Richard