2009/8/13 Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 at 10:48:03 Neil Greenwood > <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sun include a repository for the VirtualBox version that you can get >> from their website. This means that you'll get updates to VirtualBox >> when they're available - better than downloading a version from the >> website and it getting out-of-date, especially for a non-expert user. >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads >> Halfway down the page it talks about the line to add to >> /etc/apt/sources.list (I actually create a new file in >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox, but that's personal preference >> really). As it recommends at the bottom of that page, install dkms >> too, otherwise a kernel update will break VB. > > But DKMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support > - ) requires lots of skills to install and use, as I recall from having > considered it to deal with my non-default interface driver problem. >
Ubuntu comes with DKMS preinstalled. Drivers in the repos will take advantage of it automatically (nvidia, fglrx, etc). VirtualBox's drivers work with DKMS with no configuration needed on Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
