trying to install virtual box

[ant2ne]

ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox-ose-modules-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
virtualbox-ose-modules-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$ virtualbox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel,
which is likely virtualbox-ose-modules-generic.

You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Qt WARNING: QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$
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ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$ sudo apt-cache search virtualbox-ose-modules-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-16-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-19-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-20-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-20-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-21-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-21-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-23-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-23-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-24-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-24-generic
virtualbox-ose-modules-generic - virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-generic
ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-25-generic

[ant2ne]

I changed /boot/grub/menu.lst to exclude 2.6.24-25

# title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-25-generic
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic root=UUID=88e3db54-3656-41e2-9b$
# initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
# quiet

# title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-25-generic (recovery mode)
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic root=UUID=88e3db54-3656-41e2-9b$
# initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=88e3db54-3656-41e2-9b$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=88e3db54-3656-41e2-9b$
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic


which forced me to use a 2.6.24-24. Suddenly virtualbox worked and vms were working. But it broke my nvidea


ant2ne@2ne-buntu:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] (rev a1)