testdrive fails to install on karmic from ppa with virtualbox-3.2 installed

Bug #596677 reported by MoLE
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Bug Description

Unfortunately it appears the ppa package for testdrive for karmic hasn't been updated to take into account the 3.2 release of virtualbox. After adding the ppa and attempting to install, it fails due to unsolvable dependencies.

I'm running karmic amd64 kernel.

mole@ubuntu-home-workstation:~$ sudo aptitude install testdrive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  testdrive
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpu-checker{a} kvm-pxe{a} testdrive-common{a} zsync{a}
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 312kB of archives. After unpacking 799kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  testdrive: Depends: qemu-kvm but it is not installable or
                      kvm (>= 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.4) but it is not installable or
                      virtualbox-ose (>= 3.0.8) but it is not installable or
                      virtualbox-3.0 but it is not installable or
                      virtualbox-3.1 but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
bridge-utils [1.4-5 (karmic)]
qemu-kvm [0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3 (karmic-updates)]

Keep the following packages at their current version:
cpu-checker [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
testdrive recommends cpu-checker
Score is -159

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

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