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virtual box installation

hello-worldJul 22 2010 — edited Aug 2 2010
Hi all,
I am trying to install virtualbox onto a centos5 installation. Centos 5 looks like is is a certified media according to the virtualbox download site

this is what I get
rpm -ivh VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm 
warning: VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_rhel5-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 98ab5139
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:VirtualBox-3.2         ########################################### [100%]

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.

Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this
problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the
kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found.
Install them and execute

  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

as root.

[root@user software]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                          [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                       [FAILED]
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
can anyone please help in fixing this issue.

thanks
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