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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

[SOLVED]Mysterious disappearance of virtualbox package

I can't seem to find the 'virtualbox-ose' package, even though I have the community repository enabled. All it gives me is:

community/virtualbox-modules 1.5.2-5
    Kernel modules for VirtualBox (vboxdrv)

Any ideas where it's gone?

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-02-15 00:23:12)

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: [SOLVED]Mysterious disappearance of virtualbox package

I guess you're on x86_64. The virtualbox packages are not available for x86_64. AFAIK, they don't work or build on x86_64.  As for virtualbox-modules, I don't know why it's there.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: [SOLVED]Mysterious disappearance of virtualbox package

Ah that explains it...

Thanks! (even though i'm now severely disappointed )

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: [SOLVED]Mysterious disappearance of virtualbox package

Looks like Xen is the only plausible option for left. Off to read up on Xen then...

*goes to kill self after spending hours ploughing through the virtualbox manual*
*note to self: first check that it can be installed, THEN read the manual*

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