id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 11399 4.2.6 Generic Linux installer looks for wrong symlink vboxhost-4.1.4 should be vboxhost-4.2.6 citizen99 "Message during VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-Linux_x86.run installation:- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Error! Bad conf file. File: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.1.4/source/dkms.conf does not represent a valid dkms.conf file. Diagnosis & cure: ---------------- /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.1.4/source is a link to non-existent /usr/src/vboxhost-4.1.4/source (whereas /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.6 does exist, it is a symlink to /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost). So I created an additional symlink /usr/src/vboxhost-4.1.4 to /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost and then the installer compiled the kernel modules OK. " defect closed installer VirtualBox 4.2.6 obsolete VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-Linux_x86.run all Linux