Monday, March 1, 2010

Oracle[Sun] Virtual Box on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Came across an issue when installing Oracle[Sun] Virtual Box on Oracle Enterprise Linux

[root@skrajend Desktop]# ls
VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run


[root@skrajend Desktop]# ./VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.1.4 r57640 (2010-02-12T19:32:16Z) installer
Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.
The current kernel version is 2.6.18-164.el5
Problems were found which would prevent VirtualBox from installing.
Please correct these problems and try again.
[root@skrajend Desktop]#



Solution
[root@skrajend rpm]# rpm -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-devel           ########################################### [100%]
[root@skrajend rpm]#



[root@skrajend Desktop]# ./VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.1.4 r57640 (2010-02-12T19:32:16Z) installer
Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox
Python found: python, installing bindings...
Building the VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netflt kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netadp kernel module

VirtualBox has been installed successfully.

You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual
  /opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf
and in the user FAQ
  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ

We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox.

[root@skrajend Desktop]#


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