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SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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[Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

I noticed a Loading Modules     [FAIL] during boot yesterday so I decided to investigate it.

[siegemachine@Siege-LapLinux ~]$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
Password: 
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
[siegemachine@Siege-LapLinux ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup
:: Removing VirtualBox kernel modules                                    [DONE] 
:: Compiling VirtualBox kernel modules                                   [BUSY] Look at /tmp/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
Look at /tmp/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong
Look at /tmp/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

[siegemachine@Siege-LapLinux ~]$ yaourt -S kernel26-headers
warning: kernel26-headers-2.6.39.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling

Now I read in this forum

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107733

that if I have a custom kernel then I have to have the custom kernel-headers to go with it in order to build the virtualbox driver module.  The problem is the kernel I got is from the AUR

[siegemachine@Siege-LapLinux ~]$ yaourt -Qi kernel26-kamal
Name           : kernel26-kamal
Version        : 2.6.39.1-1

And I've tried searching the AUR and there doesn't appear to be any kernel-headers to match the kernel.  When I build the kernel should I build it with the regular name and not with -kamal on the end of the kernel and see if that would work for building the virtualbox modules? Or should I boot off the regular kernel (I have both) and build it there, then reboot on this kernel and see if it works? Or finally, do I need to somehow build the kernel-headers for this kernel myself, install them, and then build the modules?

Last edited by SiegeMachine (2011-06-24 03:47:57)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

is custom kernel which means that kernel26-headers doesn't matter.

you need something like kernel26-kamal-headers

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

Try reading the PKGBUILD - it's a split package, which should create kernel26-kamal AND kernel26-kamal-headers.

If that didn't happen, paste your build command and complete build output somewhere so anyone who's interested can have a look.

SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

Well its in the AUR so I just used yaourt to install it.  Is there a way to get the PKGBUILD for it to make my own headers for the patched kernel? They basically patched the kernel, made it a package and uploaded it to the AUR.

sand_man

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Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

So which AUR package is it? It should be made to use split packages to build the headers package just like tomk and wonder mentioned.

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SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

Aha well my friend noticed in the PKGBUILD for kernel26-kamal actually builds the kernel headers for that kernel but it doesn't isntall them so I just downloaded the PKGBUILD and built it myself again with makepkg instead of using yaourt then I could install the header package and built the module after.  In the end all is good.

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [Solved] Building vboxdrv with custom kernel

/me hates the Yaourt Syndrome