Comment 19 for bug 303199

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Steven Willis (onlynone) wrote :

It's even simpler than that:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source
sudo module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose-source
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start

(the last step basically just loads the module with modprobe, but it also does a little bit of house keeping)

And you might only need to run the last two steps from above; according the the module-assistant man page:

"auto-install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. It will run prepare to configure your system to build packages, get the package source, try to build it for the current kernel and install it."