[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Kernel module version requirements

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Wed Oct 29 16:30:59 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:28:55PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Please read http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/.

???

> It is a hard dependency, or does virtualbox work without the module?

It does work without a module, but you cannot start a VM. Now this reduces the
functionality significantly but still there is functionality (like working with
disk images) that works without it. Besides, people might install the module
from source I think.

Michael

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