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Author: Martijn Dekkers
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan Alpha i386 - developers release series on Vagrant
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') virtualbox


On 8 March 2015 at 03:39, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:11:35 +0100
> Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is the initial release of the Alpha series, base-system stripped
> > at minimum and distributed in Vagrant format (virtualbox provider),
> > to make the life of developers working on core components as vdev
> > easier.
> >
> > Vagrant is a very cool tool, check it out http://vagrantup.com
> >
> > I'll distribute new releases of the Devuan Alpha cycle virtual machine
> > via Vagrant and Atlas. This is version 0.1 and can be tested on any PC
> > running any operating system.
> >
> > To have this image running, install the latest Vagrant - not the one
> > from your package manager, but the updated version from the vagrant
> > website download section - then type into a terminal:
> >
> > mkdir ~/vagrant && cd ~/vagrant
> >
> > vagrant init jaromil/devuan-alpha-i386
> >
> > vagrant up
>
> I follow the preceding instructions on my wheezy machine (I'm never
> upgrading to jessie), and here's what happens:
>
> ================================================================
> slitt@mydesq2:~/vagrant$ vagrant up
> VirtualBox is complaining that the installation is incomplete. Please
> run `VBoxManage --version` to see the error message which should contain
> instructions on how to fix this error.
> slitt@mydesq2:~/vagrant$ VBoxManage --version
> WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
>          Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the
> appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.

>
>          You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
> 4.1.18_Debianr78361
> slitt@mydesq2:~/vagrant$
> ================================================================

>
> I installed Vagrant from the .deb off the website, and I installed
> virtualbox-ose-dkms and linux-headers-amd64 already. I spoze I could
> find some mknod command to make /dev/vboxdrv, but suspect that would
> just make things worse.
>
> Any idea how to run this on Wheezy, or how to start narrowing down this
> problem I'm having?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
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