Virtualbox on Debian stretch (testing)

[akrueger]

Using these instructions https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#Debi ... Stretch.22 is resulting in

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/sbin/vboxconfig 
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxdrv.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxdrv.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxballoonctrl-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxballoonctrl-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxautostart-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxautostart-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxweb-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxweb-service.service.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
This system is not currently set up to build kernel modules (system extensions).
Running the following commands should set the system up correctly:

  apt-get install linux-headers-4.8.0-2-amd64
(The last command may fail if your system is not fully updated.)
  apt-get install linux-headers-amd64
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong.
This system is not currently set up to build kernel modules (system extensions).
Running the following commands should set the system up correctly:

  apt-get install linux-headers-4.8.0-2-amd64
(The last command may fail if your system is not fully updated.)
  apt-get install linux-headers-amd64

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.

I cannot install linux-headers-4.8 as there is only 4.9:

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apt-cache search linux-headers
...
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-all - All header files for Linux 4.9 (meta-package)
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 4.9 (meta-package)
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-common - Common header files for Linux 4.9.0-1
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-common-rt - Common header files for Linux 4.9.0-1-rt
linux-headers-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 - Header files for Linux 4.9.0-1-rt-amd64
linux-headers-amd64 - Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
linux-headers-rt-amd64 - Header files for Linux rt-amd64 configuration (meta-package)

so I did

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apt install linux-headers-4.9.0-1-all
apt-get install linux-headers-amd64
/sbin/vboxconfig 

but it always goes back to:

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/sbin/vboxconfig 
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxdrv.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxdrv.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxballoonctrl-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxballoonctrl-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxautostart-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxautostart-service.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxweb-service.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxweb-service.service.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
This system is not currently set up to build kernel modules (system extensions).
Running the following commands should set the system up correctly:

  apt-get install linux-headers-4.8 ...

Are there undocumented dependencies? What have I done wrong, or forgotten to do? Is this a bug?

Thanks a a lot!

[dilberts_left_nut]

Presumably you still have a 4.8 kernel.
You should update to the current 4.9

[akrueger]

that was it, rebooted, now it works.

thx a lot!