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joebednarz
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Oracle Linux

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VirtualBox installed Oracle Linux just fine (when MS Virtual PC couldn't). However, when I try to install the Linux Additions, I have been running into a problem.

To install, I did this:

1. Copied VBoxLinuxAdditions.run to my filesystem.
2. Ran "sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run"
3. Got error "Unable to build the kernel module. See the logfile /var/log/vboxadd-install.log for more details"

Most of the log file just lists make file directives, but at the end of the file, there is this:

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In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/vfsmod.c:130:
/tmp/vbox.0/utils.c: In function 'sf_ini_inode':
/tmp/vbox.0/utils.c:98: erro: 'struct inode' has no member named 'i_blksize'
/tmp/vbox.0/utils.c: in function 'sf_inode_revalidate':
/tmp/vbox.0/utils.c:157: error: 'struct inode' has no member named 'u'
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/vfsmod.c:131:
/tmp/vbox.0/dirops.c: In function 'sf_dir_open':
/tmp/vbox.0/dirops.c:30: error 'struct inode' has no member named 'u'
... and repeats the "no member named 'u'" for a number of different functions...

any ideas?

"uname -a" reveals:

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Linux ora-vm.domain.com 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 29 05:37:00 CDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
joebednarz
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fyi: Oracle Enterprise Linux

Post by joebednarz »

To save on the Google searches...

Oracle Enterprise Linux = re-packaged Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Technologov
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Post by Technologov »

Have you installed kernel-headers, or kernel-source ?
joebednarz
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Post by joebednarz »

kernel-headers... yes.

kernel-source... no.

I'll give it a try and post results...
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