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virtualbox-ose-modules package

  1. Bug #239062
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 239062

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Paul Elliott (omahn) wrote :

virtualbox-ose-modules in hardy-proposed verified, these are the steps I took to verify:

HARDY
1. Booted into 2.6.24-21-generic
2. apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-23-generic
3. Rebooted into 2.6.24-23-generic
4. Attempt to run virtualbox gives:
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
  Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel,
  which is likely virtualbox-ose-modules-generic.

  You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
5. Manually running 'depmod -a' followed by 'modprobe vboxdrv' resolves the problem.

PROPOSED
1. Booted into 2.6.24-21-generic
2. Installed 2.6.24-24-generic kernel from hardy-proposed to test the hardy-proposed version of virtualbox-ose-modules (no 2.6.24-23 version is available)
3. apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-24-generic
4. Rebooted into 2.6.24-24-generic
5. Running virtualbox works successfully.