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Bug#717791: debian-installer: virtualbox guest additions not installed correctly



Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> (2013-07-25):
> Quoting Sander Marechal (sander@prezent.nl):
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: d-i
> > 
> > I installed a clean Debian Wheezy 7.1. The installer correctly
> > determined that it was running in a Virtualbox VM and installed the
> > virtualbox guest additions. The problem is that the additions were
> > not correctly installed. The kernel module wasn't built so the guest
> > additions did not work.
> > 
> > I first had to install the build-essentials myself. Also, the
> > installer installed the wrong kernel headers for my kernel. The
> > debian installation came out running the -486 kernel but the
> > installer installed the -686-pae kernel headers.
> > 
> > IMHO if the debian installer installs the virtualbox guest
> > additions, it should also build and load the kernel module.

Strange, ISTR that did work (and that was taking a fair amount of CPU
time). Attaching your installer logs would be nice (I guess we only
need syslog); /var/log/installer to the rescue.

> To be confirmed but I suspect this is not the installer that
> triggerred the installation of virtualbox extensions.
> 
> I see nothing in tasksel's tasks that is related to virtualbox or
> virtualization.

Yeah, I needed a few minutes to find out, that's actually pulled through
discover/discover-data:
| discover-data (2.2010.10.14) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * Update HW mappings for PCI devices:
|      8086:3582: install i810switch.
|      80ee:beef: Install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11.
|   […]
| 
|  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:07:42 +0200

Mraw,
KiBi.


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