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Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

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Am Freitag, 11. August 2017, 07:08:41 CEST schrieb Robert Menes:
Did you install the virtualbox-dkms package?

If yes, did it build?

If yes, can you modprobe virtualbox?

If everything fails, try kvm and aqemu as a substitute.

Best

Hans
> Hi all,
> 
> On my home desktop, I'm running Debian on the testing channel (currently
> at "buster"). A recent apt-get upgrade appears to have broken or removed
> a few vital virtualbox packages, including virtualbox-dkms.
> 
> Launching any VM in virtualbox throws this error message:
> 
> [error]
> 
> The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there
> is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms
> package and load the kernel module by executing
> 
> 'modprobe vboxdrv'
> 
> as root.
> 
> where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The
> support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.
> 
> [/error]
> 
> Running modprobe as the error message suggests, though, gives me:
> 
> modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory
> /lib/modules/4.11.0-1-amd64
> 
> Current I'm running the 4.11.0-1-amd64 kernel, but can easily boot and run
> a 4.9 kernel (which is the last good working kernel I have).
> 
> apt-cache search on my desktop doesn't bring up results for any virtualbox
> package, except for 'virtualbox-guest-additions-iso'.
> 
> Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or buster
> yet? While only a minor inconvenience of having to boot with another
> kernel, I would like to have the newer packages available for a consistent
> upgrade.
> 
> Thanks, all.
> 
> --Robert

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Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 13:10 +0200
  Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-11 13:20 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-08-11 13:40 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-08-15 06:40 +0200
      Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-18 14:50 +0200
        Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-18 15:20 +0200
          Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-18 16:10 +0200
            Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-18 16:30 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-18 16:40 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-18 17:10 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-22 15:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 20:40 +0200
            Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-18 16:50 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 00:30 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-19 00:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 03:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 03:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 06:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-19 09:10 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 18:10 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-19 23:50 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@nuagelibre.org> - 2017-08-19 21:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 21:50 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-31 16:10 +0200
      Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-31 16:30 +0200
        Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-31 16:40 +0200
  Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-08-11 13:20 +0200

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