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I'm a Linux Novice

Was running 12.04 with virtualbox 4.2. Everything was rosie.

Upgraded to 12.10; now Virtualbox will run, but can start any VM's. Get error 'kernel driver not installed' I've ran /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup but get error 'Your kernel headers for kernel 3.8.0-32-generic cannot be found'

I tried running apt-get linux-headers-3.8.0-32-generic but get error 'Pakcage linux-headers-3.8.0.32-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package'.

uname -r responds with 3.8.0-32-generic

ls /usr/src contains linux-headers-3.5.0-42; linux-headers-3.5.0-42-generic & vboxhost-4.3.0

How do I resolve this? I now understand I should have installed DKMS before performing the OS upgrade and kernel headers would have been updated.

bigmac
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Install all kernel package include kernel-header, with a newest kernel (3.11.0-13 (binary) with synaptic. Then reboot . The system will start with new kernel and ... work. (my problem is using vmware)

If you have a problem with 3.5.0-42 you can start with old one.

Braiam
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amelinux
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Most of the time this is the fix for me.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms
sudo reboot

If that fails try:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
sudo reboot

Don’t worry you will not lose any of your created virtual machines.

Braiam
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user221062
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