Installing Sun VirtualBox 3.0.12 and VMware Workstation 7 on Fedora 11 x86_64
Marko Vojinovic
vvmarko at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 11:32:33 UTC 2009
On Monday 23 November 2009 10:29:55 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> VMware Server 2 is not compatible with Fedora 11 x86_64, i.e. kernels
> 2.6.29.4 and up. So don't bother to try compiling vmmon modules for VMware
> Server.
>
> If you encounter problems while compiling the vboxdrv and vmmon kernel
> modules, it may be that your local kernel source tree is not properly
> configured.
>
> In my case:
>
> # cd /lib/modules/2.6.30.5-enming.teo
>
> # rm build (symbolic link)
>
> # ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 build
>
> # rm source (symblic link)
>
> # ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5 source
>
> Go to your kernel source tree. Some kernel header files may not be present.
>
> # cd /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.30.5
>
> If .config exists,
>
> # make oldconfig
>
> # make prepare
>
> This will generate the missing kernel headers.
Why not just
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
or "yum install kernel-headers", which is apparently included in the above
group?
> For VirtualBox,
>
> # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>
> Above step will recompile linux kernel modules for VirtualBox. There will
> be 3 kernel modules.
>
> To load the vboxdrv kernel module,
>
> # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
If you did the yum thing above *before* installing VirtualBox, there is no
need for these steps. Otherwise they are needed, at least I remember doing the
first one.
I wouldn't know about VMware, gave up on it after having too much trouble with
kernel drivers. VirtualBox appears to provide equivalent functionality, and is
(mostly) open source, so I don't expect the same trouble with building kernel
modules. ;-)
HTH, :-)
Marko
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