How to start Jasper server in Linux

To start a JasperSoft server in Linux go to your Jasper server install directory, typically /usr/local/jasperserver/

cd /usr/local/jasperserver/

Then run the start command on the Jasper control shell script;

./jasperctl.sh start

This can be done in one with the command;

./usr/local/jasperserver/jasperctl.sh start

Recompiling Virtual Box's kernel

I recently installed some updates on my openSUSE Linux machine and found that my VirtualBox machines were no longer starting. I was receiving an error similar to the image below.

To fix this I needed to recompile my VirtualBox kernel. To do this I opened up a console as root (using su and my root password) and ran the following commands;

cd /etc/init.d/

./vboxdrv setup