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vladimir pavloski
Asked: 2019-03-01 11:21:07 +0800 CST

Virtualbox 6.0.4 or 5.138 not working with Kernel 4.4.0-143-generic Xubuntu 16.04

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enter image description hereWell, it's very annoying, I have looking every where for a solution to get Virtualbox Windows 7 VM working on Xubuntu Kernel 4.4.0-143-generic , BUT NOWAY it not works !!! My solution was change the default kernel boot to 4.4.0-141-generic and it works fine. Of course it's a BUG, the kernel 4.4.0-143-generic can't find vboxdrv, when try to run modprobe vboxdrvit gives an error that the drive is missing, vboxusers is set correctly, the virtualbox KEYS are assigned correctly, I tried VB 5.138 which uses dkms then remove and purge it and install from Oracle webpage VB 6.04 which not uses dkms. So it's very frustrating. So, any comments that can help me run VB on -143-generic kernel ? thanks, Vladi

Attached image of VB log file under kernel -143

virtualbox kernel xubuntu dkms

2 Answers

  1. I have host with VirtualBox 5.1.38 and guest running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS with 4.4.0-143-generic kernel from xenial-proposed.

    I can confirm that installing guest additions from virtualbox-guest-x11 APT package does not work. I have the following error message after login:

    VBoxClient: Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service, rc=VERR_ACCESS_DENIED

    So I have reported bug 1818148 to LaunchPad.net. And I have discovered that 4.4.0-142-generic is also affected.

    But installation from VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.38.iso works on my guest system.
    What is bad - this way is breaking recommendation given in similar Q&A before.

    Update: the real bug is 1818049, it was reported on 2019-02-28 10:57:21 UTC.

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  2. This has been fixed in the test builds of VirtualBox but not yet in the releases (at the time of writing).

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