Comment 29 for bug 1457776

Earlier in this thread, a 3rd (and IMHO, best) option was mentioned. You
can use the LocutusOfBorg PPA. He is the maintainer of the Ubuntu build.
His PPA has the latest version (currently 5.0.4) fully open source version
of VirtualBox, with VNC enabled, so the commercial Orcale extension is not
necessary.

As I understand it, the only reason this version is not in the Ubuntu
repositories is due to red tape.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox guest-additions-iso

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Lonnie Lee Best <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Are we close on this bug?
>
> I debating whether to wait on an official Ubuntu Update to fix this OR
> do an "outside of repository" install from
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>
> Please advise.
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> virtualbox-dkms 4.3.10-dfsg-1: virtualbox kernel module failed to
> build [error: macro "alloc_netdev" requires 4 arguments, but only 3
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