Posts Tagged ‘debian’
Using kqemu in debian
kqemu is not available in any of official debian repos. (Google “kqemu” if you dont know what kqemu is. Also kqemu on wikipedia).
So, if your machine doesnot supports KVM (like mine), you’ll most probably feel the need of kqemu. To install kqemu on debian (confirmed on lenny), follow these:
NOTE: Run all commands below as root.
apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare
m-a update
m-a a-i kqemu
After this, open /etc/modules in you text editor and append kqemu after last line (mind you, there should be no other text in that line) i.e. append this line to /etc/modules:
kqemu
Now, restart your system and launch an OS inside qemu *as root* (kqemu wont be loaded with qemu if you are not root).
That’s it 🙂
Error on debian lenny when updating Virtualbox 1.x to 3.x
I’m running debian lenny that was setup from minimal netinst. I had installed virtualbox from lenny repos (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/virtualbox-ose). But then I thought of upgrading to newer version of virtualbox because virtualbox 1.x refused to capture my mouse pointer inside guest OS. So, I added lenny-backports repos (http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/) to my /etc/apt/sources.list and did ‘sudo apt-get install -t lenny-backports virtualbox). Then when I started virtualbox 3.x, and tried starting (/booting) any guest OS, I got this error:
When I was installing Virtuabox from lenny-backports, the ‘apt-get install’ output was:
http://codepad.org/bjDDof4p
Lines number 90,91,92 and 108, 109, 110, 111, 112 are worth noting in that paste.
(Note: If you want to check out log of output from ‘apt-get install’ on debian, goto /var/log/apt/ and open term.log in your text editor as root)
I then tried finding some help on #debian at irc.freenode.net.
User ‘qq-‘ there suggested that I try rebooting. When I rebooted, I got this message in debian boot messages scrollback:
Starting Virtualbox kernel modules. No suitable vboxnetflt module for running kernel found. Failed
After some discussion, users ‘qq-‘ and ‘jpinx-eeepc’ suggested that I try installing linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (you can see mentions of this linux kernel version in the paste linked above). So, I did ‘sudo apt-get install -t lenny-backports linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686’.
When I started Virtualbox this time……wooohooo NO ERRORS THIS TIME 😀
So, in short, install the latest/stable/recommended linux kernel version if you get a similar error.
