[arch-general] virtualbox-modules-lts?

Jarek Sedlacek JarekSedlacek at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 19:27:19 EST 2012


Hey,

You can install them from source, but there are existing tools to do so.
Install the virtualbox-source package, then run "vboxbuild" as root to
build the modules. They can then be loaded with "modprobe vboxdrv"

Thanks,
Jarek Sedlacek




On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:19 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> I see there's a virtualbox-modules package, but that's for the mainline
> (3.2 series) kernel.  I don't see a similar package for the LTS (3.0
> series) kernel.  Does one exist somewhere that I'm missing it?  If not,
> how does one use virtualbox on Arch with the LTS kernel?  Do we need to
> build the kernel module from source by hand?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
>
>


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