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virtualbox-ose-modules package

  1. Bug #238259
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 238259

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José M. López-Cepero (cepe) wrote :

I can also confirm this.

I'm using kernel 2.6.24-21-generic, for which the virtualbox-ose modules have not yet been compiled. When trying to use module-assistant I get the same errors as the first poster (assembly-related messages). This makes Virtualbox unusable in the 2.6.24-21 kernel.

As a temporary workaround, I was able to manually insert the module for 2.4.6-20-generic, which was still installed (since it is the latest dependency of the virtualbox-ose-modules-generic package) and it seems to work, by using the following command:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-20-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko

dmesg reports success and the vbox machine seems to boot up and work OK.