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Author: Fulano Diego Perez
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To: Olaf Meeuwissen
CC: dng, 166
Subject: Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?


Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Hi,
>
> I've read the thread until Gregory's message from 2017-12-02T00:10Z but
> figured my reply would fit in better here.
>
> Fulano Diego Perez writes:
>
>> Gregory Nowak:
>>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:36:51AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>>>> Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
>>>> [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
>>>> [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[....] No suitable module for
>>>> running kernel found ... failed!
>>>> failed!
>>>> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
>>>
>>> apt-get install virtualbox-dkms linux-headers-amd64
>>
>> hmmm
>>
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
>> linux-headers-amd64
>> linux-source-3.16
>> virtualbox-dkms - previously installed
>>
>> i dont get it
>
> Neither do I. All I needed was, if you put it in a single apt-get
> command, on a jessie *only* system
>
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 virtualbox
>
> I did not need a "headers all" or linux-source package. Everything else
> needed is pulled in via dependencies.
>
> Here's a few questions though, do you have other kernel images
> installed? Which kernel are you running when you try to install
> virtualbox? The following should help answering these
>
> dpkg-query -W | grep linux-image
> uname -a


well here we have it:

$ dpkg-query -W | grep linux-image
linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64    3.16.43-2+deb8u5
linux-image-amd64    3.16+63


$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u5
(2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

> Hope this helps,


me too !

im stuck with virt-manager also

aqemu works though

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