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dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

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[Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

Hi everybody,

I installed virtualbox 5 (after having uninstalled the previous 4.x version). At the end of the install, I get the following message:

==> To compile/load virtualbox modules automatically at startup you can add dkms in your DAEMONS
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==> To build and install your modules run dkms autoinstall

When I run

sudo dkms autoinstall

I get the following error:

dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
Error! Bad conf file.
File:
does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.

Any guess on how to fix that issue?

Thanks a lot,
D.

Last edited by dicaiopolis (2015-07-25 15:07:15)

graysky

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Re: [Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

You installed vb5 from where?

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dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 126

Re: [Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

You installed vb5 from where?

I installed it from AUR (using yaourt).

Thanks for your answer.

papajoke

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Registered: 2014-10-10

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Re: [Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

enter today in stable, virtualbox 5 from community is ok

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ronw

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Re: [Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

Check that AUR page?

VB5 in the community repo installed fine and is working.

dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 126

Re: [Solved] Virtualbox 5 kernel modules

enter today in stable, virtualbox 5 from community is ok

VirtualBox from community is working, but can't recognize my USB gadgets (printer, scanner). It was complaining about the Extension Pack, so I installed the virtualbox-ext-oracle from AUR. It stopped complaining, but can't see my USB stuff. Any ideas?

SOLVED: I forgot putting my user in the Virtualbox groups.

Last edited by dicaiopolis (2015-07-25 15:06:53)