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From: "Rob Malpass" <lug@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtualbox woes
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From: "Paul Stimpson" <paul@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Mailing List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtualbox woes
Hi,
Have you tried becoming root then doing:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
That should rebuild the kernel modules.
Cheers,
Paul.
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19:08
Thanks - but I don't get that option.   If I do
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
then I get
 * Usage: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv {start|stop|restart|status}
I've tried
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv restart
which gives
 * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv                             [
OK ]
 * Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
 * No suitable module for running kernel found.
I think part of the problem must be that I can't see
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-22-386 in synaptic so I've installed -generic
instead - but obviously there's something wrong somewhere.
Cheers
Rob
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19:08
OK folks - for the record I've fixed it.   The winning formula is not ideal 
(in that I used the 2.0.2 version from the website which is closed source) 
but.
1) Use synaptic to remove virtualbox-ose and _every_ virtualbox-ose-module* 
package
2) Install the deb file as normal
If you don't remove every single module - it will fail to install.
Cheers
Rob