Npn OSS VirtualBox key issues

[stan]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:40:45AM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:39 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I have one machine that is on 10.20 (my laptop), and a number of machines
> > till on 10.04, since it is a LTS. I amusing Virtualbox )non OSS version) on
> > several of the production machines, and I need to get it autodownloaded, so
> > that when the LTS machine upgradee to a new kernel version things do not
> > stop working.
> >
> I'll take a tab in the dark and assume that you meant 10.10....
> 
> Are you asking how to make VB rebuild it's libraries so when a new
> kernel is installed it will come back automagically?  Without dkms
> support, I'm not sure you can do this.  I use the non-OSS VB also, and
> I haven't found way to make it rebuild automatically either even
> though it claims to be dkms-setup.
> 
> OTOH, I recall I updated to the latest kernel yesterday an didn't see
> any problem bringing VB back up after the install.
> 

Yes dkms is required, The problem is simply getting a balis signature check
on the VirtualBox package. All the est works like a charm.

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