[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] AMD64 Version of virtualbox for Debian Jessie

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Friday 05 September 2014 05:40 PM, Jim Cobley wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am having real problems installng the 64bit virtualbox on Debian 
> Jessie (up to date)
>
> I see that 4.3.14-dfsg-1 is available in 
> "/software/Linux/debian/dists/jessie/contrib/binary-i386" on our 
> mirror site and this seems to be what is being installed.
> However it will not generate vboxdrv
>
> Is this because there is no corresponding 64 bit version in 
> "binary-amd64" - its not in the package list?
>
> If that is the case then what can I do - VBox has been working 
> wonderfully until the recent kernel update but now I can't get anywhere.
> Have purged, reinstalled, folowed the instructions on 
> https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox again and again. 

Do you have the DKMS package, virtualbox-dkms, installed ??

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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