[PLUG] Virtualbox kernel issue

Matt McKenzie lnxknight at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 21:54:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:39 -0800
> Larry Williams <larryw at holbrookmasons.org> wrote:
>
> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
> Linux
> > > kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make$
> > >
> >
> > Have you actually installed the kernel source files?  What is in
> /usr/src?
>
> There is a lot of stuff in /usr/src, but nothing that looks like a kernel
> source file. There is a vboxdrv-3.0.8 link to another folder.
>
> I also looked in Add/Remove Software, but couldn't find anything that
> looked
> like a kernel source to install. The Add/Remove Software GUI is not easy to
> find things in unless you know exactly the name of the package you are
> looking
> for.
> __________________
>

As I mentioned in another post, you want to install the kernel-devel and
kernel-headers RPMs.

Do this:

sudo yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel



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Matt M.
LinuxKnight



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