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Kernel driver not installed error in Virtualbox

Bug #1838713 reported by Eliastik on 2019-08-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1835576: virtualbox-guest-dkms-hwe 5.2.18-dfsg-3~ubuntu18.04.3 fails to build on 5.0 based kernels [In function ‘VBoxGuest_RTR0MemUserIsValidAddr’: error: macro "access_ok" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2]. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When starting a virtual machine in Virtualbox, the message "Kernel driver not installed" (see attachment) is displayed. Reinstalling the package virtualbox-dkms result in an error : "Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-23-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.18/build/make.log for more information." and the command "sudo modprobe vboxdrv" doesn't work. This issue started after upgrading from linux kernel 4.18 to linux kernel 5.0.0-23 (as proposed by the Update manager).

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