Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > >> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes: >>> >>> Any particular reason you need that particular version? Could you >>> upgrade your virtualbox VM to a different kernel and use the headers >>> for that kernel (or if I'm misremembering which kernel requires the >>> headers, upgrade the host machine kernel)? >> >> I'm not sure about what you say there. I'm not particularly >> knowledgable about this but far as I can tell The guest addtions >> require the guest OS's kernel headers to compile certain >> modules... without them... no guest additions. > > Just tried it, so I could be sure I was giving good advice... > > I'm suggesting you go into your package manager in the guest machine (I > use aptitude, but that shouldn't matter) and do an upgrade to the > current versions of everything (this will include the current kernel). > Once you've done that, you should be able to install > virtualbox-guest-utils (also inside the package manager); this should > pull in everything needed to run the guest additions including the > headers for the now-current kernel. > >> I already tried to upgrade the kernel on the guest OS to one with >> headers available with apt-get.... but got into some trouble ending >> with an non-bootable mess... > > You don't want to do it like that -- simply upgrading everything should > upgrade to the current version. > >> I'd rather leave the kernel building etc to someone who better knows >> what they are doing. It's said to be easily done....(Updating a >> kernel) but my experience is a little different. Or I'm just a little >> dimmer than the average bear. > > No kernel building is needed for this.
Done and done.... thank you. The experience came off a little nicer than last time ;)
