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creating a virtual drive for Fedora MATE...
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@mk !grrr the VirtualBox linux kernel driver is not installed - and it takes some poking around to figure out how to correct that :(
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@mk the suggested packages aer installed except... the linux headers file seems to be 3.16, but I'm running 3.14 because 3.16 won't boot. so it loks like I cannot run Linux in VB until *that* is resolved! !grrr
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@mk OK, since I did install extra packages (without effect) I'm going to try to UNinstall VirtualBox and then re-install it. I cannot think of anything else... /cc @mmn @mcscx
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@mk first, an intermediate: try to REinstall virtualbox... no luck with that. So, UNinstall (this also takes virtualbox-qt and virtualbox-dkms with it) and REinstall by selecting *-dkms, which then wants the other two as well. The process first tries to STOP kernel modules and restart them - but that step FAILs; then it runs virtualbox-dkms (just as I did) - seemingly it does the same, and NO vboxdrv appears in /etc/init.d/ ... but it finalizes with a stop kernel modules and start kernel modules and this time that step succeeds! Sure enough, I no longer get an error message when starting VirtualBox, and a VM *can* now be started. #phew but where is vboxdrv now??? very #confuzzled
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@mk My init.d (deb wheezy) has: vboxdrv virtualbox vboxballoonctrl-service vboxweb-service.Maybe running init.d/virtualbox start is enough
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@mcscx possibly ... I have no idea where that file is hiding, because virtualbox-dkms does build vboxdrv.ko files (one for each kernel for which it builds) - but doing this *before* I re-installed VB did not work. Very confusing. But at least I'm over that hurdle.
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