Re: virtualbox error-SOLVED

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Tue November 11 2008, Jeff Goodman wrote:
> > I went to the VirtualBox web site:
> > http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> > , and downloaded the all_distributions .run file:
> > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.4/VirtualBox-2.0.4-38406-Li
> >nux_x86.run
> >
> > after I again purged all the old virtualbox packages, I ran that, and
> > it worked. now I have no menu, but I have
> > the /opt/VirtualBox-2.0.4/VirtualBox application that works.
>
> Next time you run into kernel-module-version issues, try...
> # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

actually, that command was run, as part of theVirtualbox.version.run package..
that may be part ( all?) of the answer.


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Paul Cartwright
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