[SAC] Virtualbox on Osgeo6

[Alex M]

On 09/26/2017 02:26 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 07:46:18PM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> I've tried installing Vagrant and Virtualbox on OSGeo6, via
>> apt-get, but the install cannot complete w/out also installing
>> a kernel module:
>>
>>   virtualbox-dkms - x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
>>
>> Do you know if it's safe to install that, and how to recover
>> from a disaster (unbootable machine) ?
> 
> I found help in #osuosl for a physical presence, but found that
> the problem is that kernel headers are missing on osgeo6, and the
> installed kernel does not have corresponding headers.
> 
> Installed kernel is 4.7.0, but packages exist only for 3.16.0 and
> 4.9.0, so I guess 4.7.0 was installed "manually", do you know about
> that ? Should I attempt a kernel upgrade ?
> 
> --strk;

Martin is the only person I can think of that would have done that. I
would ask him. A kernel update would seem reasonable.

I see an email on 10/20/2016 about a kernel update. No idea if this is
the kernel in question.

Thanks,
Alex