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I have been told that installing package virtualbox-ose-dkms solves all these problems. I have installed and it reported that my modules were up-to-date, which is promising. I shall try and remember to update this page later, but I thought I'd write this now in case I forget!!
If you install "virtualbox-ose" under Debian, along with "virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6", there can be a mismatch between versions, which will prevent VirtualBox from running. At the time of writing virtualbox-ose is at version 1.66 and virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6 is at 1.62.
Unfortunately you need to build the kernel module yourself.
$ dpkg -l "virtualbox-ose-modules*" | grep ii ii virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64 3.0.12-dfsg-1+2.6.30-8squeeze1 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.30-
Take a note of this package name for the next step.
$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.30-2-amd64
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source $ sudo module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose
This will produce a custom virtualbox-ose-modules package in /usr/src, which will then be used to install.
Look out for error messages, if it states that a deb file already exists, remove it and try again.
This step was carried out automatically in the version that I have.
$ sudo modprobe -r vboxdrv $ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
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