Virtual box driver problem

[smolloy]

What the hell?!

Try

apt-cache search vboxdrv

[Kungfuu_Plop]

[root@localhost will]# apt-cache search vboxdrv
[root@localhost will]#

[smolloy]

I'm out of ideas.

The problem is that VirtualBox needs a kernel module called vboxdrv in order to run, and this module needs to be matched to your running kernel. You should have been able to install that in the previous step (apt-get install ....), but for some reason it couldn't find it. Then I asked you to search the cache for it (apt-cache search ...), but it couldn't find any possibilities.

The only idea I have left is to download the source, compile it yourself, and then insert it into the running kernel, but that doesn't sound like fun.

Sorry.

[Kungfuu_Plop]

Coudn't I just go and nick it off a friend and put all the files in like that , off a USB drive ? therefore I would have everythign I need because she has the same distro as me (I think) linuxOS 07 like on windows ,just take what i want to take and then put it on my laptop

[smolloy]

This might work, but it might be awkward to figure out exactly which files you need.

Also, it's important (I think) that she's running the same kernel as you. You can figure out the kernel you've got by executing the following,

uname -r

[Kungfuu_Plop]

[root@localhost will]# uname -r
2.6.18.8.tex5

since she has internet at uni I will access it and compare it with Mine