vm

Preston Hagar prestonh at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 22:24:34 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 02/06/2009 11:38 AM, Preston Hagar wrote:
>
>>
>> About the only issue I have found is that when I do a kernel upgrade,
>> I usually have to reinstall the deb file so it can rebuild kernel
>> modules for the new kernel.  Other than that I have not had any
>> issues.
>
> From the same link you provided:
> Note: Ubuntu users might want to install the dkms package (not available
> on Debian) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv
> and vboxnetflt) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes
> during the next apt-get upgrade.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install dkms
>
> and you should be fine. If not, then follow the popup instructions (same
> as provided by Christoph).
>
>

You expect me to read?  Actually thanks to everyone for the
suggestions.  It really hasn't happened that often and reinstalling
the deb file always fixed it, so I never bothered looking into it
further.  I installed dkms and now have no complaints.

Thanks for your help.

Preston




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