Re: Virtualbox kernel module incompatabilities
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 05:42:55PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Sydney <sydneyjd@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> > I just thought i would bring it to this issue to your attention, and hope im not wasting anyone's time by
>> > reporting it. Im also sorry if i do not have enough information in this email.
>> >
>> > I am running Debian 8.
>> >
>> > A week ago i installed the linux kernel and headers from the backport repo, which if i remember correctly is version 4.1.3.
>> > So, a couple days ago i went to open Virtualbox which i believe is version 4.3.18, and it gave me the following error.
>> >
>> >> kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
>> >
>> > Here is a screenshot of the error.
>> >
>> >>http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-09092015-041704pm.php
>> >
>> > I made sure that i had DKMS installed, and i even deleted my VMs amd reinstalled Virtualbox to no avail.
>> >
>> > In the end i ended up installing the 5.0.4 version of Virtualbox for Debian Jessie from the Virtualbox website, and that installed ok and has been running fine without errors.
>> >
>>
>> Means we need to backport new version... I'll see what to do in the weekend.
>
> I can confirm that I had the same problem as Sydney and solved it by
> simply rebuilding the sources from sid on the Jessie target system. I
> did not observed any problem with this so backporting should be easy
> (but I would not volunteer to do it for something I use *very* rarely
> and do not feel competent enough).
>
It's already their since several days ago, 5.0.4-dfsg-2~bpo8+1, ;-)
Regards,
Aron
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