can't compile virtualbox or vmware modeules on 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Valent Turkovic]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:31 AM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>  > >> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  >  >>> I updated fedora kernel to latest 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
>  >  There has been some comments on:
>  >  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2103
>  >  and in fedora-devel that may pertain to issues you are seeing.
>  >
>  >
>  >
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>  Ok, I got it. It is because fedora went from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24 version
>  of kernel. Minor version updates don't break the vmware or virtualbox
>  but major versions do.
>
>  Got it.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>
> Valent.
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I downloaded latest VirtualBox 1.5.6 (I had 1.5.2) and updated it:
rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora8-1.i586.rpm

now kernel module compiles.

Valent

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