Debian – Installing VirtualBox Inside OpenVZ with Missing Sources

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I'm attempting to install VirtualBox inside of an offsite OpenVZ instance I got a good deal on. The point being to run a small Windows XP box for some kind of Windows Server.

Yes, it's an experiment.
No, it's not for production.

It seems like everything would work fine, but the installer can't find my distro's sources. My instance has Debian 6 installed. Running uname -r gives me 2.6.32-042stab061.2. I've looked all through my apt-cache for anything similar, tried installing linux-sources-2.6.32 and a variety of linux-headers, but I'm having no luck.

Does anyone know how I can get the proper sources for this instance so VirtualBox can compile itself? Thanks.

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In OpenVZ, you do not have any control over the kernel. This is because OpenVZ does not virtualize hardware, and is a "container", rather than a virtual machine on the host node. Since you will be unable to load modules into the host's kernel, this will not be possible.

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SOLVED!

Simple as that: /root/.bashrc had this inside:

 export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=always'

Changed it to:

 export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=never'

...and restarted the root shell (of course; do not omit this step). Everything started working again. Both NVIDIA and VirtualBox kernel modules built from the first try. I am so happy! :-)

Then again though, I am slighly disappointed by the kernel build tools. They should know better and pass --color=never everywhere they use grep; or rather, store the old value of GREP_OPTIONS, override it for the lifetime of the building process, then restore it.

I am hopeful that my epic one-week battle with this problem will prove valuable both to the community and the kernel build tools developers.

A very warm thanks to the people who were with me and tried to help.

(All credits go here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4156366.html#4156366)

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You cannot handle simfs like common block devices.

If you have enough spare storage on the HN, just assign more to that container:

# vzctl set CTID --save --diskspace 100G

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