[arch-general] virtualbox-host-dkms

[Sudaraka Wijesinghe]

On 03/08/13 18:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> dkms can't rebuild deleted vbox modules for the "linux" kernel
> 
>   # dkms install vboxhost/$(pacman -Q virtualbox|awk {'print $2'}|sed 's/\-.\+//') -k $(uname -rm|sed 's/\ /\//')
>   Module vboxhost/4.2.8 already installed on kernel 3.7.10-1-ARCH/x86_64
> 
>   # ls /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.7-ARCH/
>   version
> 
> and for linux-rt I get the same error
> 
>   # dkms install vboxhost/$(pacman -Q virtualbox|awk {'print $2'}|sed 's/\-.\+//') -k 3.6.11-rt30-1-rt/x86_64
>   Module vboxhost/4.2.8 already installed on kernel 3.6.11-rt30-1-rt/x86_64
> 
> but there never were modules installed for the kernel-rt.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 

I don't know if this is because of I'm using a custom kernel, but on my
system Virtualbox modules are located under /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/

In you case they should be:
/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/3.7.10-1-ARCH/x86_64/module/
or
/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/3.6.11-rt30-1-rt/x86_64/module/

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