VirtualBox: Installation on Debian Lenny

Posted by mweber on May 6, 2009 10:58 PM EDT
EasyLinuxCDs.com; By Mike Weber 		Mail this story
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I have used virtualization in many different forms, OpenVZ, Xen, VMWare, for a number of years with great success. One thing I have been interested in doing is moving away from all applications that are not OpenSource. So finding a good solution for the Desktop virtualization has been a process. In that I am now running Debian 5 Lenny for the desktop workstation I thought I would try VirtualBox.

That part is easy, what is a pain is that you have to manually set up a kernel module for it to run. Follow these steps and you will be OK, do them as root. The modprobe actually installs the plugin. Note, if you reboot and virtualbox says you need to use modprobe, just su to root and run the modprobe command again to install it.

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