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I have a make problem during the installation of the Virtual Box package.

Package: VirtualBox-3.0.4_50677_openSUSE110-1.x86_64.rpm
Host System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64)

Before the Version: 1.5.6-33.2-x86_64 was running successfully on this host.
Installing the rpm package with YAST went through OK.
Registering the VirtualBox copy went through OK.
On start of VirtualBox I have seen a message requesting whether my existing virtual machines shall be converted to the new format. I said yes.
(However for safety I have a backup)
The new VirtualBox shows up.
When I try to start a virtual machine it breaks with an error message and request to start: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as user root.
Doing this results to the following:
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

Within the vbox-install.log the following can be found:
/usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: line 100: make: command not found

Has anybody seen this problem before and may have a solution for it ?

Thanks for any help.
Roland

I'm having a similar issue on OpenSUSE 11.1, with VBox 3.0.4; only my log read:

Makefile:174: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.

I found this post on OpenSuSE forums:
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications ... nside.html

and discovered that my kernel-source was not installed.

After taking care of that, I was successful getting Make to re-compile the VBox kernel, only to get a new error. Now it's saying that I should not mix the OSE version with the PEUL version. ...don't know how to recover from this, tho...

Yes - of course !
Of course this is required if the kernel needs rebuilding.
Once I have installed the kernel sources etc. and updated the kernel to the up-to date one the installation script of virtual box went through.

But one surprise the script is now happy and goes through and tells at the end that a new build is not necessary ... So it was only to make the script happy.

At the end it works now and that is important.

Thank you very much for your help
Roland

If you have installed dkms then the rebuild happens on reboot.
So quite possibly the reboot after update fixed it.

May be something like that happened.

But I am not sure if it is dkms on SuSE Linux.

Roland