virtualbox dependency

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

Actually this has happened on some ubuntu systems. Perhaps this has been
fixed already

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
wrote:

> The virtualbox package recommends virtualbox-dkms.  On an Ubuntu system in
> it's default configuration that would mean that anytime you installed
> virtualbox or virtualbox-qt, virtualbox-dkms would be installed.  If Mint
> doesn't do that, you should probably take this up with Mint developers.
> It's
> not an Ubuntu issue.
>
> Scott K
>
> On Thursday, December 04, 2014 01:29:27 AM Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> > Actually, Virtualbox should install those dependencies by default. Would
> > make sense if vbox won't run without it.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Simos Xenitellis <
> simos.lists at googlemail.com
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Scott Richardson
> > >
> > > <scott.richardson at visionsystemsinc.com> wrote:
> > > > virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Without
> this, I
> > >
> > > get
> > >
> > > > the following error when I try to start a virtual machine:
> > > >
> > > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
> > > >
> > > > The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or
> > >
> > > there
> > >
> > > > is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the
> kernel
> > > > module by executing
> > > >
> > > > '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
> > > >
> > > > as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install
> the
> > > > DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes
> and
> > > > recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv does not exist. But if I install
> > > > virtualbox-dkms manually my virtual machine will start up. It seems
> like
> > > > virtualbox should at least suggest virtualbox-dkms be installed.
> > >
> > > The command should have been
> > >
> > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
> > >
> > > Perhaps the error message should be updated to the new command.
> > >
> > > Simos
> > >
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