Thanks to all for your replies. I have written a small blog post in general about virtualbox.Please put in ur comments or any additional information. http://rijeshmenon.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/virtualization-using-oracle-vm-virtualbox-a-developer-checklist/ -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ext Paul M. Whitney Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:46 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Installing VirtualBox in RHEL5 Probably both kernel-devel and kernel-headers. Paul On Sep 6, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Haridas, Rijeshk (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote: > Hello, > > We have an usecase to install virtualbox on our RHEL5 server. > I downloaded the latest 64 bit binary ie, VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.8_64453_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm and did rpm -ivh <rpm name>. > > Its showing the below error .Can anyone help me out.it seems some library is missing. > > > [root@pythagoras vmware]# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.8_64453_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm > warning: VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.8_64453_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 98ab5139 > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:VirtualBox-3.2 ########################################### [100%] > > Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! > > No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages > emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log. > > Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this > problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the > kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found. > Install them and execute > /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup > as root. > > The /var/log/vbox-install.log shows the below error: > > ** Compiling vboxdrv > Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. > > Is it looking for kernel-devel rpm?? > > > Regards, > Rijesh > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
