Installing VirtualBox on FC6

[Gul Dukat]

Hi,

yesterday I've installed VirtualBox on a Fedora Core 6 pc. All went OK. But I can't seem to get the program started. So I've tried to start it from the commandline, to see the problem. This is what I get:

 VirtualBox
/opt/VirtualBox-1.3.6/VirtualBox: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/VirtualBox-1.3.6/VBoxVMM.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

Just ot set the record straight. I've installed the appropriate kernel-headers and kernel-devel. And I've also added the user to the group vboxusers.

I hope someone can help me ot here. Thanks in advance.

[Gul Dukat]

OK,

I've found out that it doesn't start because of SELinux. After disabling SELinux I can start VirtualBox. But I would prefer to enable SELinux. What would I have to do or change in SELinux to get VirtualBox up and running and let SELinux to stay active as well?

[Darkelve]

Take a look here as well:

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualbox_fedora_centos_opensuse

[Gul Dukat]

Thanks for your reply, Darkelve.

Those were the exact steps that I followed. Except it doesn't refer to SELinux. And that is where I suspect the problem is.

[ianw1974]

I don't know how, but I think you can create some sort of selinux rule to ignore the application your having problems with.

 

I've seen and read about other issues before with selinux, and this is what they were hinting at. Sorry I can't say how to do it. :(

[Gul Dukat]

I don't know how, but I think you can create some sort of selinux rule to ignore the application your having problems with.

Those are my thoughts exactly. The problem is, I just don't know which rule.