Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Sunday 25 November 2007, Lawrence H. Nitz wrote: > >> Let me try to give you the text of the error message from memory, since >> I won't be back at that machine for several hours. >> >> 1. On attempting to start a VM (power on), the prompts tell me to run >> /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup >> > > The interesting thing here is the reason for that message box :) > > >> 2. When I do that, the prompt tells me that vboxdrv is already running. >> > > Therefore I suppose that the versions are different, that is VirtualBox > expects a different version of the kernel module. > > What is the output of > > find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name vboxdrv* > > ? > > >> 3. When I run ps aux | grep VBoxSVC (or VB*, or vb*) no running >> process appears except grep. >> 4. I cannot find a line in the log which says either "failure" or >> "error," but there may be something named in another way. >> 5. I can run another recompile and look carefully at the log as it >> rolls by to see if there is indeed some kind of failure in compilation >> that I have missed. Oddly, though, the control screen comes up just fine. >> >> Let me ask a question that is backing up a bit--are there installations >> running on Fedora 7? Or is it possible that >> the raw newness of the Fedora releases always builds in features that >> software developers cannot easily trace or debug? >> > > Our Fedora7 package was tested here a bit on a Fedora7 installation. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
Thanks for the precise question! Here is the result of the uname probe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name vboxdrv* /lib/modules/2.6.20-2936.fc7xen/misc/vboxdrv.ko _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
