4.8 kernel support needed

[dino99]

When booting a 4.8 kernel, journalctl show:
 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module.

Reinstalling the virtualbox packages show:
Loading new virtualbox-5.0.24 DKMS files...
Building only for 4.8.0-4-generic
Building initial module for 4.8.0-4-generic
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.8.0-4-generic is not supported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.8.0-4-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.24/build/make.log for more information.
Job for virtualbox.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: virtualbox 5.0.24-dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-4.5-generic 4.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Aug 26 08:36:36 2016
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
VirtualBox.ModInfo:

[dino99 (9d9)]

Looks like upstream has made some changes already:

Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog#v4

Hopes getting the latest release into yakkety archive

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I didn't sync it yet, because I'm not too confident with the qt5 switch (I have some focus issues).
I'll reconsider before yakkety release when I'm confident with it.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

you can test my ppa if you want to help.
ppa:costamagnagianfranco/virtualbox-ppa

[dino99 (9d9)]

Thanks

Tested the package from upstream; but yakkety have dropped libpng12 which is required

virtualbox-5.1:
 Depends: libpng12-0 (>=1.2.13-4) but it is not installable

Tested your ppa:
-installation goes well with 4.8 kernel
- will check for possible warning/error on next reboot

[Michael Stucki (mstucki)]

A ppa is not a fix. The issue is still present in Ubuntu 16.04 using virtualbox-5.0.24. See my comment in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1629870 for a solution.