[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#762061: virtualbox-dkms fails to build on standard 3.14.15 kernel

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Thursday 18 September 2014 08:27 AM, Omar Radwan wrote:
>          I recently got Debian installed on my laptop. Everything went smoothly,
> except getting virtualbox to work was a nightmare. The virtualbox-dkms package
> on Debian Testing, which at the moment is using linux 3.14, fails to build or
> install.
>
>          I realized that the only way to get it working was to download a kernel
> source from kernel.org, I got the 3.14.15 kernel, compile and install it
> myself, then boot from it, this was the only way to get virtualbox working on
> my machine. I don't think that a significant amount Debian users, which aren't
> very proficient in unix-like systems, would have the expertise to compile their
> own kernel and install.
>
>          After I compiled and installed the new kernel. I did "dpkg-reconfigure
> virtualbox-dkms", and it compiled the package and I was able to use virtualbox.
>
>
> PS: I'm using virtualbox 4.3.14

Please, when you file a bug report, also include the relevant build 
failure. From your bug report, we have zero idea on what the problem 
could be.

That said, I am using the same version on the same kernel, on my Debian 
box. My guess is that you do not have the relevant linux-headers package 
installed.


@VBox Maintainers: I am seeing too many similar bug reports. Perhaps we 
should add a Recommends on the kernel headers metapackage. But the catch 
is that there is no linux-headers meta package like we have for, say, 
linux-tools.

@Debian Kernel Maintainers: What would you recommend we add a Recommends 
for ?

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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