Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, I talked with Ritesh, the debian maintainer. dkms is a Dependency, and virtualbox-dkms correctly depends on dkms. For just virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source is defined as Recommends. Because there can be users who hand compile drivers. The real problem lies with dkms: https:

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, I talked with Ritesh, the debian maintainer. dkms is a Dependency, and virtualbox-dkms correctly depends on dkms. For just virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source is defined as Recommends. Because there can be users who hand compile drivers. The real problem lies with dkms: https:

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Istimsak Abdulbasir
Actually this has happened on some ubuntu systems. Perhaps this has been fixed already On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The virtualbox package recommends virtualbox-dkms. On an Ubuntu system in > it's default configuration that would mean that anytime you installed > vir

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
The virtualbox package recommends virtualbox-dkms. On an Ubuntu system in it's default configuration that would mean that anytime you installed virtualbox or virtualbox-qt, virtualbox-dkms would be installed. If Mint doesn't do that, you should probably take this up with Mint developers. It's

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Istimsak Abdulbasir
Actually, Virtualbox should install those dependencies by default. Would make sense if vbox won't run without it. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Scott Richardson > wrote: > > virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Witho

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Scott Richardson wrote: > virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Without this, I get > the following error when I try to start a virtual machine: > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) > > The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either n

virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Scott Richardson
virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Without this, I get the following error when I try to start a virtual machine: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Pleas