VirtualBox OSE 1.6.6 is packaged for Debian Lenny and available as backported packages for Debian Etch. VirtualBox OSE 2.1.4 is currently packaged for testing.
Lenny
Using Etch? Skip to the Etch section.
udevcontrol reload_rules is not invoked at virtualbox-ose postinst as /sbin/udevcontrol does not exist in Lenny
1.
Install the virtualbox-ose package and appropriate kernel module package for your system:
# aptitude install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-$(uname -r)
2.
Instruct udevd(8) to reload the installed udev rules (Debian bug 509014):
# invoke-rc.d udev reload
3.
Load the VirtualBox kernel module:
# modprobe vboxdrv
4.
Add your user account to the vboxusers group:
# adduser yourusername vboxusers
Log out and log back in to your system to apply the group membership change.
VirtualBox OSE can now be started.
To load the vboxdrv module at system startup, edit /etc/default/virtualbox-ose and set LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE to 1.
