On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 22:29 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Packages for say, Debian, should actually be in two parts: The program and 
> the 
> module-source. For Debian, the module-source package would then be installed 
> (and reinstalled) using module-assistant (just like any other packages 
> modules). I would assume other distros have parallel methods.

I assumed he was using the official package provided by Innotek (the
free-beer version). AFAIK there are no Debianized packages for either
version yet[0], so module-assistant is not yet utilized for VirtualBox.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406992

> > > Just run the installer again to recompile the kernel module.
> >
> > you can also re-run the installer script manually by doing this:
> >
> > sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox.postinst
> >
> > > Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >         Hi
> > >
> > >         Since I upgraded to a new kernel my ubuntu 6.10 system
> > >         VirtualBox doesn't launch VMs anymore.
> > >         It says that there isn't the kernel module.
> > >
> > >         The kernel module is in:
> > >         /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> > >         but not in /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic
> > >
> > >         What should I do?
> > >
> > >         Thanks
> > >         --Luca
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