Problems installing VirtualBox

**Daniel15** · May 7th, 2008

Hi everyone,
I've been trying to install VirtualBox 1.6 from www.virtualbox.org (to see if it's better than VMware

), and keep getting these errors:

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv [ OK ]
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
cp: missing destination file operand after `/tmp/vbox.0/Module.symvers'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2 -pipe -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -ffreestanding -maccumulate-outgoing-args -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -fomit-frame-pointer -g -fno-stack-protector -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -I/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D__LINUX__ -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -D__X86__ -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPDrv_linux)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxdrv)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/.tmp_SUPDrv-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/types.h:55,
from /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/types.h:25,
from /tmp/vbox.0/SUPDRV.h:31,
from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:24:
include/linux/types.h:40: error: redefinition of typedef ‘uintptr_t’
/tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/stdint.h:119: error: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was here
In file included from include/linux/thread_info.h:33,
from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:49,
from /tmp/vbox.0/SUPDRV.h:84,
from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:24:
include/linux/bitops.h:6:1: warning: "BIT" redefined
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/cdefs.h:24,
from /tmp/vbox.0/SUPDRV.h:30,
from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:24:
/tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/cdefs.h:979:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? The kernel headers and source for my current kernel both appear to be installed.

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-headers-
ii linux-headers-2.6.24-16 2.6.24-16.30 Header files related to Linux kernel version
ii linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic 2.6.24-16.30 Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.24 on x
ii linux-headers-generic 2.6.24.16.18 Generic Linux kernel headers
daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-source-
ii linux-source-2.6.24 2.6.24-16.30 Linux kernel source for version 2.6.24 with

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-16-generic