Olaf Meeuwissen: > Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) > or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64 > (3.16+63) from jessie works fine.
I wish it did for me: $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: virtualbox-qt Suggested packages: vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso The following NEW packages will be installed: virtualbox virtualbox-qt 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/18.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 80.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox. (Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ... Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-qt. Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-qt_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ... Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ... [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules. [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[....] No suitable module for running kernel found ... failed! failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed. Setting up virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ... Scanning processes... Scanning kernel images... Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. No services need to be restarted. $ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.1. (Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ... Setting up virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ... Adding group `vboxusers' (GID 117) ... Done. vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong. Linux distribution base type not recognised. There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ... $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
