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Thu, 16 Oct 2008

/Admin/virtualization/virtualBox: An Educational Software Update

Yesterday a new version of virtualbox-ose (the "ose" stands for Open Source Edition", BTW....) came down the pipe.

First thing I noticed during installation was a message that said, to paraphrase, "snapshots are version specific and old snapshots will be discarded after this update". So much for my idea of keeping a version of my original Windows XP install lying around indefinitely so as to be able to restore a pristine install whenever I wanted. That is really most unfortunate for Micro$oft users. Maybe one of the other virtualization packages does snapshots better....

Then I tried to run the thing to verify the update and got a

"VirtualBox kernel modules and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching"

error. The error message went on to suggest running this command to build he kernel modules manually:

module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose

Unfortunately this build failed VERY quickly, without a visible error message. I had already issued a bug report[1] where you can see my exchange with the Debian Developer, who set me straight very quickly: I must explicitly download the VirtualBox source, even though the module-assistant man page[2] says that it takes care of that. The auto-install section literally says "get the package source".

So the manual VirtualBox module build process is:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source
m-a a-i virtualbox-ose

Still loving VirtualBox.... And what Micro$oft retail user has ever established communication with a Micro$oft engineer and resolved a problem within a few hours?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502375
[2] http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=module-assistant

posted at: 09:10 | path: /Admin/virtualization/virtualBox | permanent link to this entry

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