Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
on my jaunty system which has the Sun version of Virtual box I do: > uname -a Linux gauss 2.6.28-16-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 09:47:24 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux (I then check /usr/src) > ls /usr/src (and see the directory) linux-headers-2.6.28-16-generic (and so my Virtual Box installs) (you

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:54:47 -0800 Matt McKenzie wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:51 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800 > > Larry Williams wrote: > > > > > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current > >

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread drew wymore
sorry for the top post dumb cell phones On Dec 2, 2009 1:55 PM, "drew wymore" wrote: there is a search feature in add remove or just do yum install kernel-devel in a shell On Dec 2, 2009 1:51 PM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800 Larry Williams wrote: > John Jaso

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread drew wymore
there is a search feature in add remove or just do yum install kernel-devel in a shell On Dec 2, 2009 1:51 PM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800 Larry Williams wrote: > John Jason J... There is a lot of stuff in /usr/src, but nothing that looks like a kernel source f

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread Matt McKenzie
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:51 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800 > Larry Williams wrote: > > > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current > Linux > > > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$ > > > > > > > Have y

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:11:57 -0800 Matt McKenzie wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux > > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$ > > > > Now I'm stumped. > > > > In the pa

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800 Larry Williams wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux > > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$ > > > > Have you actually installed the kernel source files? What is in /usr/src? The

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread Matt McKenzie
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > [snip] > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$ > > Now I'm stumped. > > In the past (Ubuntu days) occasionally Virtualbox would refuse to run a > virtual > ma

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread Larry Williams
John Jason Jordan wrote: > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$ > Have you actually installed the kernel source files? What is in /usr/src? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lis

[PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

2009-12-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
After three days of struggling OpenSuse (most pathetic package management ever), last night I gave up and installed Fedora 11. All has gone well and no problems with Gnome so far. I am trying to get Virtualbox installed as it was on Jaunty. I started by copying the ~/.Virtualbox folder (18 GB) to