On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern
>> <subscribed-lists(a)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?
>>
>
> As Rick points you, install kernel-devel so VirtualBox can compile its
> kernel modules. Also, install DKMS.
>
> Here's the whole shebang, including setting the VirtualBox repo so you
> can use USB stuff: (watch out for line wrapping)
>
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
> sudo wget
>
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
>
> sudo yum install VirtualBox-4.2 kernel-devel dkms kernel-headers
>
> Once VirtualBox is installed, go to
>
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download the extension
> pack. This gives you the means to connect USB devices. It's installed
> via FILE -> PREFERENCES -> EXTENSIONS inside the VirtualBox application.
> For reasons unknown to me, Virtual Box is added to the SYSTEMS menu.
>
>
>
> --
> -- Steve
> --
The machine returned the following:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Microsh*t.
The virtual machine 'Microsh*t' has terminated unexpectedly during
startup with exit code 1.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {22781af3-1c96-4126-9edf-67a020e0e858}
Try this:
sudo /sbin/service vboxdrv setup
It will use dkms to remove the existing moodules, recompile the kernel
modules, and use dkms to put them back.
--
-- Steve