Virtualbox, dkms, linux-header and virtualbox-dkms installed, but said to be missing?
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I am trying to install virtualbox on a BunsenLabs (Debian) system.
I validated that I have everything installed:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') virtualbox dkms virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dkms is already the newest version.
linux-headers-amd64 is already the newest version.
virtualbox is already the newest version.
virtualbox-dkms is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
(To be upgraded package is
openjre-8-headless
).
However, when I start virtualbox
:
$ virtualbox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Reinstalling everything, reconfigureing everything either.
Trying to force the creation of the device fails too:
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
Should I just create the device manually? What other options do I have?
Asked by DrakaSAN
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May 16, 2017, 08:23 AM
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