[vbox-dev] Announcement: VirtualBox 5.0.8 released

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Stéphane,

I presume you are using Ubuntu 14.04 based on the kernel version you 
quoted.  Could you try executing

   sudo sh -x /sbin/vboxconfig 2> /tmp/vboxconfig.log

and attaching the log file?  (Please auto-correct if something is wrong 
with those instructions.)

Thanks.

Regards,

Michael

On 21.10.2015 00:08, Stéphane Charette wrote:
>     today Oracle released VirtualBox 5.0.8, a maintenance release of
>     VirtualBox 5.0 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
>
> [...]
>
>     See the Changelog at
>     http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>
>
>
> The changelog mentions "The command for recompiling the host kernel
> modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig"
>
> I've never found DKMS to work very well with VirtualBox, even though I
> have it installed:
>
> stephane at loup ~> dpkg -l | grep dkms
> ii  bbswitch-dkms        0.7-2ubuntu1              amd64
>   Interface for toggling the power on nVidia Optimus video cards
> ii  dkms                 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu3.3        all          Dynamic
> Kernel Module Support Framework
>
> This isn't normally a problem, since I've gotten used over many years to
> manually running "sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv init" on bootup after a
> kernel upgrade.
>
> But now that I've upgraded to VB 5.0.8, along with a new kernel
> 3.19.0-31 from Ubuntu today, I can no longer start my VMs.  VirtualBox
> tells me "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)" and when I try to run
> vboxconfig, it doesn't seem to do anything:
>
> stephane at loup ~> sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
> stephane at loup ~> sudo /sbin/vboxconfig --help
> Bad argument --help
>
> This is a serious regression/blocker in 5.0.8.
>
> Stéphane
>
>
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