updating Virtualbox (non-OSE)

[NoOp]

On 10/17/2008 06:19 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> I just upgraded to VBox 2.0, and ran into a gotcha I remembered from an
> earlier upgrade:
> 
> $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
> Makefile:153: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.26) does not match the
> current kernel (version 2.6.26-5-generic).  Stop.
> 
> 
> Now, I remember this with the last upgrade, and that the fix was actually
> fairly simple (the kernel headers I have _are_ good for this purpose, so
> it's just a matter of overriding a specific compile setting), but I can't
> remember _what_ the fix is.
> 
> So I dug into the "vboxdrv setup" code, and see that it preferentially tries
> to compile the kernel using "dkms".  dkms isn't installed by default, nor
> as a dependency of virtualbox (it's a "Recommends", so I'm not sure why I
> didn't get it, as I installed vbox with aptitude), so I did "sudo aptitude
> install dkms" and then ran the vboxdrv setup again, and voila!  Everything
> installed very nicely.  
> 
> So, if you have a problem installing virtualbox, try installing dkms first,
> and repeat.

Not sure about 2.6.26, but on the upgrade to 2.6.24-21 I just followed
the instructions provided:

<quote>
Re-setup the kernel module by exceuting '/etc/inid./vboxdrv setup' as root.
</quote>

Worked for me.