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Opensuse12.3 installation of VirtualBox error resolution

At the beginning, you will be prompted what to install DKMS, and then you will see the error as shown in the figure after downloading and installing, that is

sincerefly@linux-eq1f:~/Downloads/iso$ sudo rpm -Uivh dkms-2.2.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
root's password:
Ready...                          ################################# [100%]
        package dkms-2.2.0.3-1.noarch is already installed
sincerefly@linux-eq1f:~/Downloads/iso$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                                                                            done
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules                                                               done
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop cannot be found at
/lib/modules/3.7.10-1.16-desktop/build or /lib/modules/3.7.10-1.16-desktop/source.
                                                                                                              failed
  (Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                                                                         failed

I don’t know what’s the reason. It’s not good to worry about virtual machines. One is to learn from CentOS. The other is to do experiments. It’s not safe in the physical system, but it’s OK. There’s Baidu. If there is a problem, it needs to be solved

Search for

   sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
   sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

It’s just a Debian command

I see such a sentence in it

The reason is that the corresponding package for the corresponding kernel is missing. Although I have executed the install command for kernel-devel before, the corresponding kernel-devel for the uek kernel is not installed, the correct one should be kernel-uek-devel.

That “kernel devel installation command” misled me for a long time, suddenly woke up, it was the package.

This is easy to do. Use zypper search kernel devel to search, and it is

After the installation, run it again

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

success!

Then my VB can run.