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virtualbox package

  1. Bug #1629870
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1629870

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote : Re: Trouble installing mainline kernel 4.8: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1: virtualbox kernel module failed to build

Virtualbox has a kernel module, that needs to be updated together with the kernel itself.
So, if you want, you can:
1) update virtualbox from my ppa
2) change the code to match the new kernel by using virtualbox-source
3) keep the old kernel.

virtualization *is* special :)