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virtualbox package

  1. Bug #1629870
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1629870

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robepisc (robepisc) wrote : Re: Trouble installing mainline kernel 4.8: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1: virtualbox kernel module failed to build

I incurred in this same bug after installing the proposed HWE kernel (that AFAIK is expected to be released with the incoming 16.04.2 LTS point release) in my Xenial machine.

I installed the 4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1 kernel (from the proposed channel) today, after reading the request for testing that Leann Ogasawara posted one month ago to the Ubuntu Announce list.

However, after I executed "sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge", Apport catched a DKMS problem that it recognized as a duplicate of this bug.

I think VirtualBox should work out-of-the-box with the HWE kernel.