Comments on: Installing VirtualBox on a PAE Kernel System

By: Hristosky

Hristosky — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:45:00 +0000

You just saved me a ton of time, my friend! Big Thank You!

By: Sfystone

Sfystone — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:06:00 +0000

I tried with this, but it still won’t solve my problem.
I do just follow the advice, and get a problem as this link is not available:
/lib/modules/build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE

Then I find that the kernel source file and kernel module don’t match each other:
$ ll /usr/src/kernels/; ll /lib/modules/; ll /lib/modules/2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE/ |grep build
total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Nov 19 14:58 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Nov 15 00:04 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Dec 8 17:08 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Dec 8 15:19 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE
total 12
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 4096 Dec 8 16:50 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Dec 8 16:50 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Nov 27 23:38 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 50 Nov 27 23:17 build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Nov 27 23:17 source -> build

$ rpm -q kernel-PAE-devel
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686
$ uname -r
2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE

How can that be?
Since there’s only one PAE for src and one for module, I simply make link as build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE

then fail as:
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why)
dmesg shows:
[ 1544.584690] vboxdrv: version magic ’2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 ‘ should be ’2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 ‘

Now I get stuck. anybody know what’s next?

By: som

som — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:47:33 +0000

thanks man, solved my problems

By: som

som — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:47:00 +0000

thanks man, solved my problems

By: sonic

sonic — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:16:01 +0000

Muchas gracias, me solucionaste mi problema. :D

By: sonic

sonic — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:16:00 +0000

Muchas gracias, me solucionaste mi problema. :D

By: Roger Trancozo

Roger Trancozo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:22 +0000

Com o RHEL5.3 – Linux 2.6.18-164.el5PAE – funcionou.
Muito obrigado.

By: Roger Trancozo

Roger Trancozo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Com o RHEL5.3 – Linux 2.6.18-164.el5PAE – funcionou.
Muito obrigado.

By: Ajitabh Pandey

Ajitabh Pandey — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:29 +0000

That’s because you must have installed kernel-devel instead of kernel-xen-devel. This will compile the module. But when you try to load the module, it will reboot the system and then you wont be able to boot it unless you boot in single user mode and then disable the vboxdrv init script.

Xen and VirtualBox are incompatible (at least at the time of writing this). Someone filed bug with virtualbox but that was closed with the status as “wont fix”. So I guess you will need some other kernel and not xen.

By: Ajitabh Pandey

Ajitabh Pandey — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:00 +0000