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General Support / Cannot run Virtualbox within Ubermix 1.08 because of custom kernel
« on: July 21, 2013, 08:14:00 AM »
I installed Virtualbox but I cannot get it to run because it needs to compile a driver (vboxdrv) but it cannot because the kernel headers are not installed and I cannot install them. If the source was available, I'd compile the kernel headers myself.
Here is the error message when I attempt to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup:
A related error occurs when I install Virtualbox:
Any suggestions? I need to install VirtualBox in order to run Windows within Ubermix to run Internet Explorer in order to run a Sliverlight application, Teacher Plus Gradebook by Rediker. I've tried Moonlight and Wine without any success. I looked the Ngenx extension for Chrome, but the costs is at minimum $5 per user per month with a minimum of 20 users.
I could configure a RDP setup with a Windows machine, but I've used a vbox vm on my Mac running Windows with IE and it works very well.
The most straight forward solution would be to make the custom kernel headers available in the software repository and allow for installation via apt-get with a note that the base system will need to be re-sized which I have already done.
Thanks.
Here is the error message when I attempt to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup:
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.8.5-41-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.8.5-41-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
A related error occurs when I install Virtualbox:
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
Any suggestions? I need to install VirtualBox in order to run Windows within Ubermix to run Internet Explorer in order to run a Sliverlight application, Teacher Plus Gradebook by Rediker. I've tried Moonlight and Wine without any success. I looked the Ngenx extension for Chrome, but the costs is at minimum $5 per user per month with a minimum of 20 users.
I could configure a RDP setup with a Windows machine, but I've used a vbox vm on my Mac running Windows with IE and it works very well.
The most straight forward solution would be to make the custom kernel headers available in the software repository and allow for installation via apt-get with a note that the base system will need to be re-sized which I have already done.
Thanks.