[vbox-dev] Missing client support for Fedora18/kernel-3.7.1

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Tue Jan 8 10:36:56 GMT 2013


Joachim,

On Tuesday 08 January 2013 10:47:21 Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi list, I don_t know if this is the right place for my problem,
> but ... let us try:
> 
> I'm running VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.6_82870_fedora18-1.x86_6 in Fedora18
> together with kernel-3.6.11-3.fc18.x86_64 without problems. But after
> I updated to kernel-3.7.1-2.fc18.x86_64, the vbox modules fail to build:
> 
> ==================================================================
> Building process
> ==================================================================
> 
> Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]
> Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules            [  OK  ]
> Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! Bad
> return status for module build on kernel: 3.7.1-2.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64)
> Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.6/build/make.log for more information.
>                                                            [FAILED]


Sounds like the same problem as described here:

  https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11036#comment:13

So probably a bug in the Fedora kernel package.

Kind regards,

Frank
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