Bug#636572: virtualbox not working on new Testing install

2011-08-04 Thread Clayton
I have managed to build vboxdrv manually, thusly: cd /usr/src/virtualbox-4.0.10/vboxdrv make make install modprobe vboxdrv and virtual machines are now willing to start. The syntax for dkms was just too hairy, at first glance of the man page Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bug

Bug#636572: virtualbox not working on new Testing install

2011-08-04 Thread Clayton
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:09:36 +0200 Felix Geyer wrote: > On 04.08.2011 10:53, clayton wrote: > > but dkms still does seem to have been triggered to build a vboxdrv > > module: > > dkms had a bug causing it to not properly trigger module builds, > see http://bugs.debian.org/634979 > > Have you ha

Bug#636572: virtualbox not working on new Testing install

2011-08-04 Thread Felix Geyer
On 04.08.2011 10:53, clayton wrote: but dkms still does seem to have been triggered to build a vboxdrv module: dkms had a bug causing it to not properly trigger module builds, see http://bugs.debian.org/634979 Have you had dkms 2.2.0.1-1 - 2.2.0.1-3 installed while installing/upgrading virtual

Bug#636572: virtualbox not working on new Testing install

2011-08-04 Thread clayton
Package: virtualbox Version: 4.0.10-dfsg-1 Severity: important This is a machine that tracks Testing, which I installed in the last few days. Whenever I try to start a virtualbox machine, I get the error: "Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root."