[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#494891: virtualbox-ose:The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist

[jaalto]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.2-dfsg-3
Severity: minor


$ virtualbox

 WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
         Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and
         load the module named vboxdrv into your system.

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

The virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.25-2-amd64 was installed in the system, 
so the prblem with the error message was:

   $ lsmod | grep virtual
   <empty>

And this was default debian install.

SUGGESTION:

Please improve the error message by suggesting to possibly load
'modprobe virtualbox' in case the package is installed.. And
configuring the /etc/modules to load it at boot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.108         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.22        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.7-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.3.1-2     GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   7.0.3-5       A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                    0.8.10-0.1    library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                  3:3.3.8b-5    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian            1.2.13-2      Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                 4.3.1-2       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.4-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.9-1     X cursor management library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.24-2      XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                     1:1.0.5-3     X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-modul 2.6.25+1.6.2-dfsg-5 PC virtualization solution modules

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
pn  bridge-utils                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  virtualbox-ose-source         <none>     (no description available)

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