Compiling VBox 1.6.2 on Fedora 9

[eliashickman]

A lot of dependencies were needed to get it compiled. However I don't understand exactly what to do next.

Here's the output from ./configure.

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Successfully generated '/usr/local/VirtualBox-1.6.2/AutoConfig.kmk' and '/usr/local/VirtualBox-1.6.2/env.sh'.
Source '/usr/local/VirtualBox-1.6.2/env.sh' once before you start to build VBox:

  source /usr/local/VirtualBox-1.6.2/env.sh
  kmk

To compile the kernel module, do:

  cd ./out/linux.x86/release/bin/src
  make

I can 'source' the file okay, but what is kmk? Is this a program?
Also I don't have an 'out' directory on my machine. Doesn't Solaris use aout for it's kernel file format? Hmm! I don't know why I'm making that connection, the two aren't that intimately related.

Here's the complete list of deps that I needed to install to get it to successfully compile on my machine. For all the hats out there.

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yum install dev86 iasl libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libIDL-devel libpng-devel SDL-devel libXcursor-devel

[Distorted Freak]

kernel-devel?

[eliashickman]

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rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686
 uname -r
2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686

I have it installed but should I try to compile it in the kernel source tree? I'm not sure what you mean.
Thanks for the speedy reply though.

[Distorted Freak]

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 yum install qt3 gcc kernel-devel

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Should be working im also on Fedora 9

[eliashickman]

I actually found that RPM and just installed it that way. Thanks Distorted freak, now I just need help with the NAT interface.


Any clues