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can anyone confirm this
this weekend i downloaded the latest updates/kernel for Mageia1
i rebooted into the new kernel 2.6.38.8-desktop-10.mga it came up as i expected
went into virtualbox that started up normally
clicked on the os i wanted to start M2A3 and clicked start and got this

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab322/nccpgmr9/vbox_error.jpg
does not matter which os i tried to start
uninstalled/installed/rebooted virtualbox 3 times all with the same error

rebooted into kernel 2.6.38.8-desktop-9.mga
started virtualbox clicked the same OS M2A3 clicked start and it started no problem

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab322/nccpgmr9/vbox_error2.jpg
so it cant be virtualbox, has to be something in the new kernel

virtualbox version is - Package virtualbox-4.0.14-1.3.mga1.x86_64 is already installed

Virtual box needs a kernel module compiled for it.
You need to install kernel-desktop-devel-latest and dkms-virtualbox and then reboot.
Booting will take much longer than usual while it compiles the new kernel module.

nccpgmr9 wrote:can anyone confirm this.......

I've updated My Mageia 1 to:

2.6.38.8-desktop-10.mga ( 64-bit )

and have tested Vbox successfully with serveral versions
of Puppy Linux, Mageia 1 ( 32/64 bit ) and my crippled
install of Cauldron. All seems ok here.

djennings wrote:Virtual box needs a kernel module compiled for it.
You need to install kernel-desktop-devel-latest and dkms-virtualbox and then reboot.
Booting will take much longer than usual while it compiles the new kernel module.

dkms-virtualbox is installed, it goes thru the module builds when i rebooted after un/re install

[root@localhost ~]# urpmi dkms-virtualbox
Package dkms-virtualbox-4.0.14-1.3.mga1.x86_64 is already installed
Marking dkms-virtualbox as manually installed, it won't be auto-orphaned
writing /var/lib/rpm/installed-through-deps.list


i'll install the devel-latest thats the only one i dont have installed but i do have kernel-desktop-latest installed

then i wil uninstall and reinstall virtualbox/dksm-virtualbox for the fourth time and see what happens after a reboot

nccpgmr9 wrote:[i'll install the devel-latest thats the only one i dont have installed but i do have kernel-desktop-latest installed

kernel-desktop-latest is a meta package for the newest kernel and kernel-desktop-devel-latest is the meta package for the kernel headers to go with it.

There is no need to uninstall and reinstall anything. This is not Windows.

djennings wrote:
There is no need to uninstall and reinstall anything. This is not Windows.

yea i know, have been using linux for many years now,since mandy 8.2 , its just the way I do it


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well the devel-latest did it , guess i forgot that when i updated to the latest kernel

remembered it when i updated to kernel 2.6.38.8-desktop-9.mga

Thanks for the reminders