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1. Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 08:57:16 UTC Temporary Marjolein
   creating a virtual drive for Fedora MATE...
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:15:47 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • Grumble rumble
     @mk !grrr the VirtualBox linux kernel driver is not installed - and it takes some poking around to figure out how to correct that :(
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:20:51 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • Grumble rumble
     @mk the suggested packages aer installed except... the linux headers file seems to be 3.16, but I'm running 3.14 because 3.16 won't boot. so it loks like I cannot run Linux in VB until *that* is resolved! !grrr
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:23:38 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     @mk in fact, I cannot run anything in VirtualBox :(
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:26:50 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     @mk Just install the linux-headers package for 3.14. No biggie. See https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
     
     # apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') virtualbox
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:27:13 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mk That command installs for your currently running kernel.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:40:23 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mmn in fact, I do not have the file /etc/init.d/vboxdrv at all - would that command create/install it? what does the sed command do?
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 09:59:48 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mmn oops, currently actually running 3.16-2 (not the latest 3.16 of Jessie or intermediate); but running apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) tells me 'linux-headers-3.16-2-amd64 is already the newest version'. I have the dkms package, and build-essential, too. But I do NOT have 'vboxdrv'.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 10:02:24 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mk @mmn in fact, I have a whole collection of linux-headers-XXX-amd64 for different kernel versions :-/
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 10:14:57 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mmn after searching the web page for 'vboxdrv' I found this command: 'dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms' - that goes through the motions of building a lot of things, but ultimately does not produce the still-missing vboxdrv.
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 10:45:48 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     @mk you can use Debian's dpkg-reconfigure on a Fedora system? Surprising.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 10:48:05 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • @mcscx@quitter.se
     @mcscx no, on Debian. Fedora is what I want to run inside VirtualBox on Debian but VirtualBox cannot start any VM because it misses vboxdrv
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 11:00:49 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     @mk on Debian i get that same message when launching VirtualBox after a reboot,unless i manually do /etc/init.d/vbox-drv start (iirc)
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 11:04:44 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     • @mcscx@quitter.se
     @mcscx but I cannot run what I don't have - /etc/init.d/ does not have any file called 'vboxdrv' - that's the real problem now. the dpkg-reconfigure removes and rebuilds stuff, including 'vboxdrv.ko' files, but not a 'vboxdrv' that I can find. If you DO have that file, you can add 'vboxdrv' to /etc/modules/ according to the webpage @mmn pointed to - that should load the module at boot time. But for me that's no use until I actually *have* that file.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 12:52:36 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • @mcscx@quitter.se
     @mcscx now starting live session form the Fedora ISO file #progress
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2015 17:18:55 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/virtualbox-dkms and it Just Works.