VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.2

If you are running virtualbox from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dirkmueller/openSUSE_10.2

and you want to start a virtual machine you can have the following error:

“Failed to start the virtual machine:”
VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’ as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

Result Code:
0×80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

THe package does not contain a /etc/init.d/vboxdrv script but you can just solve the problem by doing a

# modprobe vboxdrv

to load the VirtualBox kernel module

Check if it is loaded with

# lsmod | grep vbox

September 23rd, 2007 - Posted in linux, opensuse | | 1 Comments

abeNd.org

Eric send me an interesting link for people who are interested in Novell related news: www.abend.org

Thx Eric

September 22nd, 2007 - Posted in Novell | | 0 Comments

Todo-1

Last week I finally has some time to test Groupwise 7.2 on a Heartbeat2 cluster.

I followed the official Novell documentation and after a lot of swearing I finally got to the point were everything is working.
There are still some quirks with it and some confusing pieces in the documentation but I’m going to file bugs about it.

Still 1 small thing:

• the evms gui is a nightmare in terms of usability

September 19th, 2007 - Posted in Novell, groupwise | | 2 Comments

Packaging

I made a small overview of all the RPM packages I’m currently maintaining in the OpenSUSE Build Server.

http://leo.unstable.be/suse/packages.php contains the list.

You can also find them via http://software.opensuse.org/search

September 11th, 2007 - Posted in linux, obs, opensuse, rpm | | 0 Comments