Hi, I recompiled the kernel some time ago to 23.9. As far as I remember, I might have switched off the virtualization options.
Now I want to install (edit: run) virtual box, however I don't even have /dev/vboxdrv
so I can't start it by /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start

Is there anything I can do without recompiling the whole kernel again (which is obviously fun, but a lot of things need to be updated with it)?

btw, in /etc/init.d/ I've got virtualbox-ose

thanks

Any options regarding virtualization you might have disabled during your kernel build were probably unrelated to VirtualBox.

What do you mean "install virtual box"? The kernel module? To recompile the module for your new kernel simply run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. This command will also install and load the fresh module. As you said you don't have this script, but you do have something called virtualbox-ose. Perhaps it is the same thing. Crack it open in a text editor to find out. There should be comments at the top saying what it is.

Also, there is a newer version of VirtualBox available as of October with several bug fixes and improvements.

thanks for your reply and sorry I was in a hurry. My previous post is very confusing I meant I installed and want to run it. I used to use it in the past on some other machine. When I want to start a virtual machine from virtual box I get the error

I understand it, what I need to do is just install the virtualbox-ose-modules, however, my kernel is 2.6.23.9-custom
and I can't find those modules for a 2.6.23.9 kernel in the lenny's repositories:

What can I do?

Btw, I started virtualbox-ose and tried to run virtual box again, however I get the same error as the one in my previous post.

thanks

My guess is download the virtualbox-ose-source package and you will be able to compile the module. I use the RPM directly from the VirtualBox web site, so I have no idea how you compile from this Debian package.