How to rebuild vboxdrv on Arch Linux
Everytime I upgrade my kernel on Arch Linux, VirtualBox stops working, and everytime, I can't remember the command to rebuild it.
So I am copying here how to do it, so I can come and read it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTES: - Run "vbox_build_module" as root every time your kernel is upgraded, to
VMware Server 1.05 fails to start with version 2:1.1.4-2 of libx11-6
Some days ago I have updated my Lenny and VMware stop working, this time it was not a problem of a new kernel usually solved reconfiguring vmware, this time the problem was the new version of libx11-6 does not work with vmware, so the solution is to downgrade it to the Etch version.
First create a file called
/etc/apt/preferences
put this content inside:
Package: libx11-6 Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500
Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list
Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.1", while you are trying to use "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2"
Today I upgraded my Linux from Etch to Lenny, and one of the first things that stop working was vmware-server, actually I did not expect it to work at all.
Well to fix that I run ./vmware-config.pl as root
Two Linux virtual machines sharing /home partition under VMware
Introduction
A friend of mine from StumbeUpon, to be precise The Master Chief (Visit his SU blog) asked me after reading Dual boot with two Linux sharing home asked me if I have ever hear about doing the same thing under VMware, well the answer was not, but I decided to try it and here it is what I did, hope this was what to need MasterChief.
Vmware browse button hangs it
When trying to use my VMware server to run an asterisk on it, I had the problem that as soon as I click on the browse button the VMware just hang on.
I got also this error on the terminal,
(vmware:5077): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))
What I found in a forum here is that you can run vmware using this command.
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: - VMWare on F7 -
Installing VMWare server on my new F7, and after running these commands,
yum install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xinetd wget
yum install kernel-devel
yum install binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1 gcc-2.95-doc
yum install gcc
Cannot load module '/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
I have just installed a new fresh Debian Etch, and this time when I tried to install VMware server on it following my own instructions I could not, I am now using vmware server 1.0.3, There was not need to patch it in order to have it installed and running, but as soon as I tried to browse the directory to open a VM I got this error.
Unable to build the vmmon module
I did a big mistake today, I tried to install vmware on Feisty and even though I have written an article about Installing VMWare server on Feisty I tried to install it without the Vmware patch, and what did I get?
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
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