In the event of you repository doesn’t consist VirtualBox’s kernel module for your current kernel version. In this post I will describe how to make it manually.
NOTICE: In my case distro is Debian.
My current kernel version is :
# uname -r 2.6.30-1-686
Let’s have a look about virtualbox module :
# apt-cache search virtualbox | grep [you_kernel_version] #
Nothing was found.
First of all we have to get kernel sources:
# apt-get install linux-source-[you_kernel_version]
Go to /usr/src and delete symbolic link linux if it exist:
# cd /usr/src # rm linux
extract files from archive and make new one linx:
# tar -xjvf linux-source-2.6.30.tar.bz2 # ln -s linux-source-2.6.30 linux
Now go to sources and set current configuration:
# cd linux # make oldconfig && make prepare
After finished, run :
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module:done.. Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module:done.. Starting VirtualBox kernel module:done..
Check is everything done right:
# lsmod | grep -i vbox
It’s okay if you get something like this:
vboxdrv 63936 0
Now you are ready to run VirtualBox.
