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



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.

Kind regards,

Sander Marechal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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