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| Nadav (nadav-shemer) wrote Re: dkms build virtualbox creates a lot of noise when run as non-root | #3 |
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Upon running virtualbox, I was informed that virtualbox-ose-dkms was not installed. I installed it with sudo apt-get, and encountered the same message again.
I ran the command 'dkms build virtualbox/4.1.12'
* Is there a GUI way to performs this action? I could not find it
* Was this action supposed to have occurred automatically upon 'apt-get install virtualbox-
As the bug report suggests, I ran it as a non-root user and was momentarily confused by the error messages
Perhaps this is a symptom of a bug in the virtualbox-ose-dkms installation?
(After running 'dkms build virtualbox/4.1.12' and 'dkms install virtualbox/4.1.12' as root, I was able to start the virtualbox service and use virtualbox.)