DKMS - RC=-1908 on Linux (Oracle 6.3)

[Ratman]

I was able to get Virtualbox installed on Oracle 6.3 (64 bit). Here are the steps that I took to make it work.

1 - Do a Linux software update (should be common)

2 - delete old yum

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su -
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
rm public-yum-ol6.repo

3 - Get new public yum

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su -
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo

4 - Edit the yum to enable both [ol6_u1_base] and [ol6_UEK_base] by changing enabled=1

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su -
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo

5 - Do a yum update

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# su -
yum update

6 - Install kernel and gcc

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su - 
yum install kernel* gcc

7 - reboot

8 - Go to "http://linux.dell.com/dkms/" and get the latest dkms package and install it

9 - reboot again

10 - go to "https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads" download and install either the i386 or the AMD64 depending on your chip set.

11 - follow the normal set up steps

[madpentiste]

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You may want to take a look at other posting RE the same problem, but filed under other subjects.

For example, see "/dev/vboxdrv disappearing" (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44576). See my posting there (2 Sep 2012, 06:19); I had the same problem, and was able to solve it.