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#1 2012-08-12 18:40:05

marko2010
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[SOLVED] Stock Arch kenel and Virtualbox: Do I need to run dkms or vbo

I'm running the linux-3.4.7-1 kenel and plan to upgrade to  linux-3.4.8-1 next time I run pacman. Do I need to do anything  special to rebuild the Virtualbox kenel module, or can I simply run pacman -Syu ?

I checked the wiki and it only makes mention of custom kernels. Something must be taking care of the Virtualbox kenel modules for everyone running stock stuff.

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#2 2012-08-12 18:59:41

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Re: [SOLVED] Stock Arch kenel and Virtualbox: Do I need to run dkms or vbo

# pacman -S virtualbox-modules

Don't use virtualbox-bin from the AUR. That's the Oracle-compiled binary kept only for comparison against the one in [community].

# pacman -R virtualbox-bin
# pacman -Syu virtualbox

Last edited by DSpider (2012-08-12 19:00:16)


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#3 2012-08-12 19:35:01

marko2010
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Re: [SOLVED] Stock Arch kenel and Virtualbox: Do I need to run dkms or vbo

Thanks. I have virtualbox-modules already installed and I am running virtualbox from the community repo. Does that mean all I need to to is pacman -Syu and the virtualbox modules will automatically play nice with the newer kernel?

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#4 2012-08-12 19:46:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Stock Arch kenel and Virtualbox: Do I need to run dkms or vbo

marko2010 wrote:

Thanks. I have virtualbox-modules already installed and I am running virtualbox from the community repo. Does that mean all I need to to is pacman -Syu and the virtualbox modules will automatically play nice with the newer kernel?


you don't have to do anything than pacman -Syu. We provide virtualbox-modules that includes the modules compiled against the stock kernel (linux)


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#5 2012-08-13 04:31:08

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Re: [SOLVED] Stock Arch kenel and Virtualbox: Do I need to run dkms or vbo

That worked. Thank you

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