On 22/03/11 14:12, Steven Sciame wrote:
>
>
> I could try that, but I am a little nervous wandering away from a
> "stable" system. Would I have to wait for the next point release for
> this to get fixed and how would I maximize my chances of this being
> fixed in 6.0.2? or sooner maybe?
You are several upgrades behind the current, stable virtualbox.
Possibly you didn't change your sources.list entry back in November -
else you would
be running 4.x vb.
>
> --- On *Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson
> /<
prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Scott Ferguson <
prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME
> To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 8:41 PM
>
> On 22/03/11 12:30, Chen Wei wrote:
> > hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2
cannot built its module on 2.6.38
> > source, follow the instruction in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook", I
> > rebuild the 2.6.34.7 kernel. It is quite strait forward and works, the
> > result kernel is also smaller than default kernel. maybe u can try it
> > before Debian issue another upgrade.
> >
> >
> <snipped>
>
> Suggest you use VirtualBox 4.0.4 (released 2011-02-17)
>
> #apt-get remove virtualbox3.2
> wget -t 0
>
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.4/virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112~Debian~squeeze_i386.deb> <
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.4/virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112%7EDebian%7Esqueeze_i386.deb>
> (there's an AMD64 variant)
> #dpkg -i virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112~Debian~squeeze*.deb
>
> wget -t 0
>
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.4/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.4-70112.vbox-extpack> #VBoxManage extpack install
>
Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.4-70112.vbox-extpack
>
<snipped>
fww I have had no issues, with vb in Lenny or Squeeze.
The release notes are on virtualbox.org
Cheers
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