[vbox-dev] dkms setup for virtualbox

[Sebastian Dransfeld]

Hi,

When installing virtualbox on Ubuntu I have a small annoyance.

If I install packages in this order:
1. new kernel
2. virtualbox
with no reboot after installing the new kernel.

Then virtualbox will use the current kernel (uname -r) to install the
kernel modules for, not the newly installed kernel.

It seems that the virtualbox package maintaned by ubuntu/debian does not
have this problem. The reason is that the use dh_dkms:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/dh_dkms.1.html
when installing the dkms modules. dh_dkms triggers:
/usr/lib/dkms/common.postinst
which searches for all installed kernels and installs the dkms modules for
this.

Can someone please fix this? Or will you accept a patch to fix this problem?

Best regards
Sebastian Dransfeld
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