Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 7:32 PM Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/06/2022 12:48, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6/21/22 07:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >> On 21/06/2022 11:53, Siard wrote:
> >>> 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: :
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the quick response. Without correctly functioning guest
> >> additions - by which I specifically mean USB - VirtualBox is almost
> >> useless for me. I would agree with you that kernel 5.18.0 is the most
> >> likely source of the problem and living on in hope is the best option.
> >
> > Hey folks -- I was OP on the thread that raised the dmks issue; with
> > thanks to Keith Bainbridge, ensuring linux-kernel-headers for 5.18 were
> > installed, and then reinstalling virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms resolved
> > the issue for me. I can confirm this is working on 5.18.0-1-amd64 right
> > now.
>
> The last time I looked at Sid the VirtualBox version was very dated. I
> doubt that you have achieved success via VBox 6.1.34?
Confirming my observations are on 6.1.34, which is what's in Sid right now.
>
> Peter HB
>
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Boyan Penkov
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