Re: Bug#762061: virtualbox-dkms fails to build on standard 3.14.15 kernel

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>]

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On Thursday 18 September 2014 08:27 AM, Omar Radwan wrote:

        I recently got Debian installed on my laptop. Everything went smoothly,
except getting virtualbox to work was a nightmare. The virtualbox-dkms package
on Debian Testing, which at the moment is using linux 3.14, fails to build or
install.

        I realized that the only way to get it working was to download a kernel
source from kernel.org, I got the 3.14.15 kernel, compile and install it
myself, then boot from it, this was the only way to get virtualbox working on
my machine. I don't think that a significant amount Debian users, which aren't
very proficient in unix-like systems, would have the expertise to compile their
own kernel and install.

        After I compiled and installed the new kernel. I did "dpkg-reconfigure
virtualbox-dkms", and it compiled the package and I was able to use virtualbox.


PS: I'm using virtualbox 4.3.14

Please, when you file a bug report, also include the relevant build failure. From your bug report, we have zero idea on what the problem could be.

That said, I am using the same version on the same kernel, on my Debian box. My guess is that you do not have the relevant linux-headers package installed.


@VBox Maintainers: I am seeing too many similar bug reports. Perhaps we should add a Recommends on the kernel headers metapackage. But the catch is that there is no linux-headers meta package like we have for, say, linux-tools.

@Debian Kernel Maintainers: What would you recommend we add a Recommends for ?

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