Virtualbox Installation notes under centos5.6 (1)

Recently, a large number of servers have been borrowed, so I want to promote virtualization technology. Virtual Machine Software selects Virtualbox, which is relatively simple. However, I was told that the software could not be installed, but I had to do it myself. I encountered a small problem in the middle and recorded it for my memo.

1. install the software environment

 
 

  
  
yum install gcc 
  
  
yum install kernel-devel 
  
  
yum install kernel-headers 
 
 

Note that the current system uses the kernel version corresponding to installing the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-devel. If the corresponding package cannot be found, use yum install kernel to upgrade the server to the same version, and then restart the new kernel. For Remote Installation, You can edit/boot/grub. conf to switch the specified inner core)

2. Install virtualbox Software

Rpm-ivh VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74727_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm

However, if you call vboxmanage list vms, you will find that the driver has not been compiled. Run the compilation command as prompted. the following error is returned:

 
 

  
  
[Root @ localhost home] # sudo/etc/init. d/vboxdrv setup
  
  
 
  
  
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Removing old VirtualBox pci kernel module [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Removing old VirtualBox netadp kernel module [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Removing old VirtualBox kernel module [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [failure]
  
  
 
  
  
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
  
  
 
  
  
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [OK]
  
  
 
  
  
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [failed]
  
  
 
  
  
(Running VirtualBox in a Xen environment is not supported)
 
 

After a brief look, it is caused by dkms not being installed.

3. Install dkms

This is relatively simple. You can download an installation at http://linux.dell.com/dkms.

Then execute the driver compilation command and find the error: