I am trying to test ReactOS in Virtualbox. When I fired up virtualbox I
received errors saying:
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One or more virtual hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy media are not currently
accessible. As a result, you will not be able to operate virtual
machines that use these media until they become accessible later.
Press Check to open the Virtual Media Manager window and see what media
are inaccessible, or press Ignore to ignore this message.
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Realizing that I had updated my kernel since the last time that I had
run virtualbox I thought it best to uninstall virtualbox, install the
headers for my current kernel and then resinstall virtualbox. I have the
following installed:
i linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 - Header files
for Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
i A linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-common - Common header
files for Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4
i linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 - Linux 3.16
for 64-bit PCs
i linux-kbuild-3.16 -
Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 3.16
i A dkms - Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
i virtualbox-dkms -
x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
i virtualbox - x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
i virtualbox-qt - x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
I still get the above error when I start virtualbox. If I click past it
and try to power up the ReactOS vm, I get:
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or
there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv.
Please reinstall the kernel module by executing:
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install
the DKMS package first. This package keeps track if Linux kernel
changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
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The problem is that '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv' does not exist. Neither does
'/dev/vboxdrv'. Am I somehow missing a package that should have been
installed? Have I missed a step somewhere in installing virtualbox?
How do I get vboxdrv installed?
Marc
