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Windows XP Networking Broke
The last time I started Windows, networking suddenly did not work. (And may have been fall-out from a preceding failed attempt at installing OpenSolaris, during which I was messing with network settings.... I do not know the cause, and did not feel like debugging it.)
I track Debian testing, and was able to find a slightly newer version of virtualbox in Debian experimental. After upgrading, Windows XP networking came back.
The newer ("experimental") version of virtualbox is a little bit messed up though. Before, I would always get a nice clear prompt to manually load the vboxdrv kernel driver on startup. Now I am getting some weird message about running an /etc/init.d/ script that does not even exist. However, merely running:
modprobe vboxdrv
still does the trick for getting virtualbox started, just like before.
posted at: 12:02 | path: /Admin/virtualization/virtualBox | permanent link to this entry