Comment 28 for bug 1016165

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L R Bellmore Jr (Bob) (lrbellmorejr) wrote :

Here is the Fix.. have Virtual Box installing XP right now.....below are the commands to enter and the responses to the sudo commands... I am not experienced programming but know enough to wiggle through sometimes... This is the solution to bug #1016165

Step 1
 sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
[sudo] password for lrbjr-dv7-64:

Resulting Program Instructions completed by system - this is for your info.. no entry required... these are the responses to the sudo input above...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libasprintf0c2:i386 libgomp1:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.5.0-22 linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-headers-3.5.0-22 all 3.5.0-22.34 [12.1 MB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic amd64 3.5.0-22.34 [965 kB]
Fetched 13.1 MB in 1min 31s (142 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.5.0-22.
(Reading database ... 173444 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.5.0-22 (from .../linux-headers-3.5.0-22_3.5.0-22.34_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic.
Unpacking linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic_3.5.0-22.34_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up linux-headers-3.5.0-22 (3.5.0-22.34) ...
Setting up linux-headers-3.5.0-22-generic (3.5.0-22.34) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.5.0-22-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-22-generic

Step 2 - correcting 12.10 and I am sure other previous versions.. the sudo command below can only be run after the updating the headers in step 1.
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Resulting Program Instructions completed by system - this is for your info.. no entry required... these are the responses to the sudo input above...
 * Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
 * Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
 * Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [ OK ]
 * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]