[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456391: Bug#456391: virtualbox-ose-source: AMD64

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

* Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> [071218 13:17]:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:00:46AM +1000, Mark Pavlichuk wrote:
> >   I'm using an AMD64 kernel on a i386 userspace (because I need to use
> > software only available as i386 binaries).  The AMD64 kernel module compiles,
> > installs and modprobes, but when I run VirtualBox I get the following error
> > dialog :
> > ...
> This is a known problem shared with quite some other pieces of software.
> The kernel interface is not 64 bit clean. I'm running a similar setup
> albeit with sid instead of etch, but also with a 64bit kernel and 32bit
> userland. My workaround is to have a 64bit chroot available and run
> virtualbox inside the changeroot.

I just stumbeled over this bug (aparently it nowadays shows slightly
different, by showing you first a quite ununderstandable error message,
followed by the hint to install virtualbox-ose-dkms and running modprobe
vboxdrv), and am wondering, if it wouldn't be a good idea for now to
have virtualbox-ose-dkms conflict with the -amd64 kernel packages?


Best Regards,
  Alexander