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

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On 01/08/2013 04:47 AM, 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]
>   (Failed, trying without DKMS)
> Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                      [FAILED]
>   (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
> 
> ==================================================================
> /var/log/vbox-install.log
> ==================================================================

This was noted in the bugzilla.
The 3.7.x kernels have only a stub version.h in inlude/linux/version.h
and it needs to disappear (it is blank).  The real version is elsewhere
in the tree and gets found ok after moving or deleting the
include/linux/version.h file  and the builds work fine.

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
fedora proventesters: redwolfe