[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

[Aron Xu]

On Saturday, September 19, 2015, georg at riseup.net <georg at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a quick follow-up question:
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna <
> costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Unfortunately we can't know *in advance* the kernel that will be
> > backported to jessie, so we can't make it build with a newer kernel
> > that the one in jessie when it was released.
>
> Does this mean, if running jessie and a backported kernel, each time the
> kernel receives an update, virtualbox has to be updated as well?
>
>
If you want to run virtualbox with a back ported kernel, it's recommended
to use virtualbox from backports as well (though it's still in NEW for
jessie-backports).

 Thanks,
Aron
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