Kernel version and VirtualBox

Mario Guenterberg mg at poolbyte.de
Thu Jun 4 09:42:56 UTC 2009


On Do, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:19:59 +1000, alan duval wrote:
> I would like to install VirtualBox in gOS (based on Ubuntu 8.04). 
> However I don't know which package to download as there are quite a 
> number of packages that seem to apply to various kernel versions.
> In /usr/src there are linux-headers-2.6.24-24  and 2.6.24-19 so I don't 
> know which version is installed.
> How can I find out what kernel version I have?
> Also, does anyone have any experience with installing and using 
> VirtualBox in Ubuntu 8.04?

uname -r is your friend.

Yes, no problems with the virtualbox-oss packages from ubuntu, also
virtualbox from sun.

Greetings
Mario

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