Installed VirtualBox - but where is it?

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-04-07, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
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> 1) Synaptic shows "virtualbox-ose-source" to be installed
> there are a number of other packages too, like "guest" etc., but I have 
> no idea what they are for.
> 2) Lookiing under "/ur/bin/" I cannot find anything resembling "virtual ..."
> 3) Applications ... NONE of the menu contains anything related to 
> "virtual ..."
> 4) Alt+F2 VirtualBox / virutalbox-ose-source (as it appears in synaptic) 
> / vboxdrv-2.1.4 (as it appears in nautilus somewhere) etc. etc. ALL 
> ineffective.
> 5) there are a million of files under /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.1.4, but again 
> NONE is executable in any way that I could understand or perform.
>
>
> So, it is installed but still "not there".
> And it apparently cannot neither be found nor execute in any "simple" 
> way a simple (non-computer specialist like me) person can comprehend.
> This is NOT the "linux simply works" that all guidebooks, instruction 
> manual etc about Linux advertise.
> There is nothing simple about this at all.
> I am afraid, for me this is imcomprehensible at best.

Please look at the description of the virtualbox-ose-source package:

"This package provides the source code for the virtualbox kernel module.
The virtualbox-ose package is also required in order to make use of
these modules. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this
module."

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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom