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Virtualbox install problems on Wheezy with 3.16.0 backports kernel



I am trying to test ReactOS in Virtualbox.  When I fired up virtualbox I received errors saying:
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One or more virtual hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy media are not currently accessible. As a result, you will not be able to operate virtual machines that use these media until they become accessible later.

Press Check to open the Virtual Media Manager window and see what media are inaccessible, or press Ignore to ignore this message.

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Realizing that I had updated my kernel since the last time that I had run virtualbox I thought it best to uninstall virtualbox, install the headers for my current kernel and then resinstall virtualbox. I have the following installed:


i    linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64                  - Header files for Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64                                                                            
i A linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-common               - Common header files for Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4                                                                           
i    linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64                         - Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs                                                                                              
i    linux-kbuild-3.16                                                  - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 3.16                                                                                   

i A dkms                                                                   - Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework                                                                                
i    virtualbox-dkms                                                   - x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms                                                           

i    virtualbox                                                             - x86 virtualization solution - base binaries                                                                            
i    virtualbox-qt                                                         - x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface                                                                  

I still get the above error when I start virtualbox.  If I click past it and try to power up the ReactOS vm, I get:

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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)


The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv.
Please reinstall the kernel module by executing:

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

as root.  If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first.  This package keeps track if Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
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The problem is that '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv' does not exist.  Neither does '/dev/vboxdrv'.  Am I somehow missing a package that should have been installed?  Have I missed a step somewhere in installing virtualbox?  How do I get vboxdrv installed?

Marc



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