Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:05 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > > Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again,
> >
> > I have the Virtualbox 6.1.34 package for Debian 11, downloaded from
> > www.virtualbox.org, working fine in Debian 12 (Bookworm).
>
> Have you succeeded in gaining support for USB? I haven't yet got past
> the <dkms> and guest Additions stage.
Indeed, USB appears not to be working. (Never used it.)
I have dkms and dh-dkms installed.
The VirtualBox-6.1 deb has been installed and upgraded with 'dpkg -i'.
It also puts VBoxGuestAdditions.iso into /usr/share/virtualbox.
Then in the guest OS you can choose Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image...
from the menu.
More about installing and maintaining the guest additions:
www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#additions-linux
I should also note that right now there appear to be problems with the latest
kernel, 5.18.0. The message in the terminal where VB was started from, says:
"WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (5.18.0-1-amd64) or it failed to load."
Probably a temporary problem. When starting Debian with the previous kernel
5.17.0, VB still works.
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