CentOS に VritualBox をインストールする

このドキュメントの内容は、以下の通りです。

• はじめに
• インストール方法
• 実行した結果

はじめに

インストール方法

sudo yum install kernel-devel
export KERN_DIR=`ls -t /usr/src/kernels/|head -1`
sudo rpm -i http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.16_86992_el6-1.x86_64.rpm

実行した結果

$ sudo rpm -i http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.16_86992_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
[sudo] password for kaworu:
警告: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BFmdAv: ヘッダ V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98ab5139: NOKEY

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [失敗]
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

$ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  中止.

sudo yum install -y kernel-devel 

export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64

$ VBoxManage --version
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
4.2.16r86992
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

sudo reboot

$ export KERN_DIR=`ls -t /usr/src/kernels/|head -1`
$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                      [  OK  ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]