Re: Sid in virtualbox: vbox drivers not built?

[Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 06 May 2018 15:04:28 +0200 Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> wrote:

> hello Debian-users,
> 
> I am using virtualbox-guest-x11 5.2.10-dfsg-6, but when starting X11,
> "vboxvideo" cannot be found. The other utils ("copy and paste") do not
> work either.
> 
> I notice that when installing "virtualbox-guest-utils
> virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms", no modules are built.
> 
> There have been many changes lately:
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/contrib/v/virtualbox/virtualbox_5.2.10-dfsg-6_changelog
> --> so is it just broken temporarily (I've seen this before)?

Have you installed dkms, appropriate kernel headers, gcc, etc?

And have you RTFM?

B