Re: [DNG] Virtualbox

[Irrwahn]

Ozi Traveller wrote on 11.07.2018 01:36:
> Hi
> 
> Just wondering if anyone is using virtualbox, and whether it brings in and 
> systemd stuff?

Hi Ozi,

I'm using VirtualBox 5.2.14 from virtualbox.org, no systemd 
dependencies. The same should be true for the De(bi|vu)an 
package (ascii-backports has 5.2.10).

HTH,
Urban

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Antonio Volpicelli]

hi all,

I have rebuild virtualbox for ascii, let me know if we have any kind of 
problem.

the packages are here: http://hezeh.org/packages/pool/contrib/v/


On 10/01/18 18:29, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us wrote:
> I am unable to use jessie's virtualbox-guest-dkms in Devuan ascii
> virtulabox guest linux sessions. When attempting to build
> virtualbox-guest-dkms, I get the following. Perhaps, have GCC options
> changed?
>
> DKMS make.log for vboxguest-4.3.36 for kernel 4.9.0-5-amd64 (x86_64)
> Tue Jan  9 21:53:16 CST 2018
> make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-amd64'
>LD  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/built-in.o
>LD  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/built-in.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest2.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/GenericRequest.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/HGCMInternal.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/Init.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/PhysHeap.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/SysHlp.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VMMDev.o
>CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/alloc-r0drv.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/initterm-r0drv.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/memobj-r0drv.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/mpnotification-r0drv.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/powernotification-r0drv.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/initterm-r0drv-linux.o
>CC [M]
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:
> In function ‘rtR0MemObjNativeFree’:
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:581:21:
> error: implicit declaration of function ‘page_cache_release’
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>   page_cache_release(pMemLnx->apPages[iPage]);
>   ^~
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:
> In function ‘rtR0MemObjNativeLockUser’:
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1032:29:
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes integer from
> pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>   rc = get_user_pages(pTask,  /* Task for fault
> accounting. */
>   ^
> In file included from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
>   from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
> expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct task_struct *’
>   long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
>^~
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1033:29:
> warning: passing argument 2 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes integer from
> pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>   pTask->mm,  /* Whose pages. */
>   ^
> In file included from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
>   from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
> expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct mm_struct *’
>   long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
>^~
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1035:29:
> warning: passing argument 4 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes pointer from
> integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>   cPages, /* How many pages. */
>   ^~
> In file included from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
>   from
> /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
> expected ‘struct page **’ but argument is of type ‘int’
>   long 

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[lpb+devuan]

So I can't run devuan ascii as a virtualbox guest with the guest utils?

On 01/10/2018 02:08 PM, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
> On 1/10/18, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
>  wrote:
>> I am unable to use jessie's virtualbox-guest-dkms in Devuan ascii
>> virtulabox guest linux sessions. When attempting to build
>> virtualbox-guest-dkms, I get the following. Perhaps, have GCC options
>> changed?
>>
>> DKMS make.log for vboxguest-4.3.36 for kernel 4.9.0-5-amd64 (x86_64)
>> Tue Jan  9 21:53:16 CST 2018
> 
> 
> More probably vb 4.3.36 doesn't support Linux 4.9.0.
> 

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Hleb Valoshka]

On 1/10/18, lpb+dev...@kandl.houston.tx.us
 wrote:
> I am unable to use jessie's virtualbox-guest-dkms in Devuan ascii
> virtulabox guest linux sessions. When attempting to build
> virtualbox-guest-dkms, I get the following. Perhaps, have GCC options
> changed?
>
> DKMS make.log for vboxguest-4.3.36 for kernel 4.9.0-5-amd64 (x86_64)
> Tue Jan  9 21:53:16 CST 2018


More probably vb 4.3.36 doesn't support Linux 4.9.0.
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[lpb+devuan]

I am unable to use jessie's virtualbox-guest-dkms in Devuan ascii
virtulabox guest linux sessions. When attempting to build
virtualbox-guest-dkms, I get the following. Perhaps, have GCC options
changed?

DKMS make.log for vboxguest-4.3.36 for kernel 4.9.0-5-amd64 (x86_64)
Tue Jan  9 21:53:16 CST 2018
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-amd64'
  LD  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/built-in.o
  LD  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VBoxGuest2.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/GenericRequest.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/HGCMInternal.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/Init.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/PhysHeap.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/SysHlp.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/VMMDev.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/alloc-r0drv.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/initterm-r0drv.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/memobj-r0drv.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/mpnotification-r0drv.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/powernotification-r0drv.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/initterm-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:
In function ‘rtR0MemObjNativeFree’:
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:581:21:
error: implicit declaration of function ‘page_cache_release’
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 page_cache_release(pMemLnx->apPages[iPage]);
 ^~
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:
In function ‘rtR0MemObjNativeLockUser’:
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1032:29:
warning: passing argument 1 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes integer from
pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
 rc = get_user_pages(pTask,  /* Task for fault
accounting. */
 ^
In file included from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
 from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct task_struct *’
 long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
  ^~
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1033:29:
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes integer from
pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
 pTask->mm,  /* Whose pages. */
 ^
In file included from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
 from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct mm_struct *’
 long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
  ^~
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1035:29:
warning: passing argument 4 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes pointer from
integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
 cPages, /* How many pages. */
 ^~
In file included from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
 from
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-5-common/include/linux/mm.h:1303:6: note:
expected ‘struct page **’ but argument is of type ‘int’
 long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
  ^~
/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1036:29:
warning: passing argument 5 of ‘get_user_pages’ makes pointer from
integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
 fWrite, /* Write to memory. */
 ^~
In file included from

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Gregory Nowak:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:34:54PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>> i don't get it, meaning why so many issues im having
> 
> The only issue that I'm aware of is that the kernel modules wouldn't
> build for you. Installing linux-headers-amd64 should have fixed that
> for you. Is this not the case? Are you having other issues besides
> that? Seeing what you're trying to do and the output you get would
> help.

unfortunately still reports same errors as docced before...

installed headers, same problems

> 
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> 
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read the thread until Gregory's message from 2017-12-02T00:10Z but
> figured my reply would fit in better here.
> 
> Fulano Diego Perez writes:
> 
>> Gregory Nowak:
>>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:36:51AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
 Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
 [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
 [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[] No suitable module for
 running kernel found ... failed!
  failed!
 invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
>>>
>>> apt-get install virtualbox-dkms linux-headers-amd64
>>
>> hmmm
>>
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
>> linux-headers-amd64
>> linux-source-3.16
>> virtualbox-dkms - previously installed
>>
>> i dont get it
> 
> Neither do I.  All I needed was, if you put it in a single apt-get
> command, on a jessie *only* system
> 
>   sudo apt-get install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 virtualbox
> 
> I did not need a "headers all" or linux-source package.  Everything else
> needed is pulled in via dependencies.
> 
> Here's a few questions though, do you have other kernel images
> installed?  Which kernel are you running when you try to install
> virtualbox?  The following should help answering these
> 
>   dpkg-query -W | grep linux-image
>   uname -a

well here we have it:

$ dpkg-query -W | grep linux-image
linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64  3.16.43-2+deb8u5
linux-image-amd64   3.16+63

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u5
(2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

> Hope this helps,

me too !

im stuck with virt-manager also

aqemu works though

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi,

I've read the thread until Gregory's message from 2017-12-02T00:10Z but
figured my reply would fit in better here.

Fulano Diego Perez writes:

> Gregory Nowak:
>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:36:51AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>>> Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
>>> [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
>>> [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[] No suitable module for
>>> running kernel found ... failed!
>>>  failed!
>>> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
>>
>> apt-get install virtualbox-dkms linux-headers-amd64
>
> hmmm
>
> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
> linux-headers-amd64
> linux-source-3.16
> virtualbox-dkms - previously installed
>
> i dont get it

Neither do I.  All I needed was, if you put it in a single apt-get
command, on a jessie *only* system

  sudo apt-get install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 virtualbox

I did not need a "headers all" or linux-source package.  Everything else
needed is pulled in via dependencies.

Here's a few questions though, do you have other kernel images
installed?  Which kernel are you running when you try to install
virtualbox?  The following should help answering these

  dpkg-query -W | grep linux-image
  uname -a

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Gregory Nowak]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:34:54PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
> i don't get it, meaning why so many issues im having

The only issue that I'm aware of is that the kernel modules wouldn't
build for you. Installing linux-headers-amd64 should have fixed that
for you. Is this not the case? Are you having other issues besides
that? Seeing what you're trying to do and the output you get would
help.

Greg


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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Gregory Nowak:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:16:58PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
>> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
>> linux-headers-amd64
>> linux-source-3.16
>> virtualbox-dkms - previously installed
>>
>> i dont get it
> 
> What don't you get exactly, which one to install, or something else?
> If it's a question of what to install, then linux-headers-amd64 is a
> meta package which will pull in everything you need to build modules
> for the latest kernel, 3.16 in the case of Jessie. That should be
> enough for what you need. I'm not sure what the
> linux-headers-all-amd64 provides, but linux-headers-amd64 has been
> enough for me up to this point. Your mileage may vary of course.

all above are installed

i don't get it, meaning why so many issues im having

stock jessie according to olaf:

> Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1)
> or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64
> (3.16+63) from jessie works fine.  That is, it installs without errors
> and virtualbox images start fine (based on my provisioning Debian jessie
> images and ssh-ing into them).

suggesting my mileage has problems that i cant fathom

am i missing something ?


> 
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Gregory Nowak]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:16:58PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
> linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
> linux-headers-amd64
> linux-source-3.16
> virtualbox-dkms - previously installed
> 
> i dont get it

What don't you get exactly, which one to install, or something else?
If it's a question of what to install, then linux-headers-amd64 is a
meta package which will pull in everything you need to build modules
for the latest kernel, 3.16 in the case of Jessie. That should be
enough for what you need. I'm not sure what the
linux-headers-all-amd64 provides, but linux-headers-amd64 has been
enough for me up to this point. Your mileage may vary of course.

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Gregory Nowak:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:36:51AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>> Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
>> [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
>> [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[] No suitable module for
>> running kernel found ... failed!
>>  failed!
>> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
> 
> apt-get install virtualbox-dkms linux-headers-amd64 

hmmm

linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all
linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64
linux-headers-amd64
linux-source-3.16
virtualbox-dkms - previously installed

i dont get it

bug updated


> 
>> $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
>> Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
>> current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL= and run Make again.
>> Stop.
> 
> Upgrading the vbox version still won't help if you don't have
> linux-headers-amd64 and associated packages installed.
> 
> Greg
> 
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Harald Arnesen:
> Fulano Diego Perez [2017-11-30 14:36]:
> 
>> $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
>> Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
>> current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL= and run Make again.
>> Stop.
> 
> Is "linux-source" installed?

no, i'll try again soon,

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Gregory Nowak:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:36:51AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>> Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
>> [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
>> [FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[] No suitable module for
>> running kernel found ... failed!
>>  failed!
>> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
> 
> apt-get install virtualbox-dkms linux-headers-amd64 

I was missing the headers...

I'll try again soon, thanks greg.

> 
>> $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
>> Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
>> current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL= and run Make again.
>> Stop.
> 
> Upgrading the vbox version still won't help if you don't have
> linux-headers-amd64 and associated packages installed.
> 
> Greg
> 
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Harald Arnesen]

Fulano Diego Perez [2017-11-30 14:36]:

> $ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
> Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
> current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL= and run Make again.
> Stop.

Is "linux-source" installed?
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Fulano Diego Perez]

Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1)
> or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64
> (3.16+63) from jessie works fine.

I wish it did for me:




$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
  vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/18.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 80.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox.
(Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-qt.
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-qt_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
[FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[] No suitable module for
running kernel found ... failed!
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
Setting up virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Scanning processes...

Scanning kernel images...

Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
No services need to be restarted.




$ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.1.
(Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ...
Setting up virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ...
Adding group `vboxusers' (GID 117) ...
Done.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what
went wrong.
Linux distribution base type not recognised.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up
process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...



$ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL= and run Make again.
Stop.





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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi,

Following up on my own post.

Olaf Meeuwissen writes:

> Hi,
>
> Gregory Nowak writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:44:17PM -0500, zap wrote:
>
> # Actually, none of the quoted stuff was written by zap ;-)
>
>>> > I do have one question though, what ascii/stretch package name(s) should
>>> > I pass to `apt-get install`?  Here's what I get for APT sources that
>>> > only reference `ascii{,-security,-updates,-backports}`.
>>> >
>>> >   $ apt-cache search virtualbox-guest
>>> >   virtualbox-guest-dkms - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition 
>>> > module source for dkms
>>> >   virtualbox-guest-source - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition 
>>> > module source
>>> >   virtualbox-guest-utils - x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest 
>>> > utilities
>>> >   virtualbox-guest-x11 - x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
>>
>> At the very least, you want virtualbox-guest-dkms, and
>> virtualbox-guest-utils.
>
> And linux-headers-amd64 if you use APT::Install-Recommends=false ;-)
>
>> If your guest has x installed, then you'll want virtualbox-guest-x11
>> as well.
>
> It's a headless server, no X.
>
>>> > # There is no virtualbox-guest-additions-iso for ascii/stretch, only for
>>> > # jessie, buster and sid.  The virtualbox-guest-additions package for
>>> > # wheezy just transitions to virtualbox-guest-additions-iso.
>>
>> They way I see it, one advantage of not using the iso is that the
>> packages will automatically be pulled in when upgraded versions are
>> available. So no need to mount a new iso, and upgrade by hand.
>
> Not so sure after my experience today because vagrant was complaining
> about a version mismatch for the guest additions (4 point something in
> the VM) and the Virtualbox version on the host OS (5.1.something).  I'm
> not sure this matters (the vagrant message claims that "usually" things
> are okay) but it *is* a major version mismatch.

I nuked the VM, reprovisioned it and manually installed a matching
version of the guest additions.  Vagrant no longer complained on start
up but the clock issue did not go away.

I did notice, though, that checking the VM after it had been running for
a couple of hours (> 5), there was only an approximate two minute clock
skew.  Somewhat later it had increased to about six minutes.  That does
not jive with my earlier statements of loosing 20 seconds to the minute.

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the version of the guest
additions (I doubt it) or whether it is just that I never noticed that
the same thing was happening before.

>>> > From what I read in the package descriptions, virtualbox-guest-utils and
>>> > virtualbox-guest-x11 provide "stuff" to install in the guest.  How does
>>> > that jive with installing these on the host?  Or should I install these
>>> > on the guest?  Does that mean the guest also needs virtualbox-guest-dkms
>>> > (and the toolchain required to build)?  That would suck pretty badly,
>>> > IMO.
>>
>> All of these are installed in the guest, not in the host. Yes, the
>> virtualbox-guest-dkms is the source part of the kernel modules that
>> would be built by using dkms. The toolchain parts aren't that big.
>
> The VM is a fairly minimized server (stripped of anything that is not
> explicitly depended on).  The toolchain etc added about 20%, IIRC.

It went from 826MB to 985MB, after cleaning out /var/{cache,lib}/apt/.
BTW, it meant to be used as a Jenkins slave for builds from git.  Hence
the "bloat".

>> If you have another system with a toolchain and an identical running
>> kernel, you should be able to install virtualbox-guest-dkms there,
>> build the modules, and copy them over into your guest's
>> lib/modules. The system the modules would be built on doesn't need to
>> be a virtualbox guest as far as I know.
>
> That'd be an option but only if really necessary.  It'd become a bit
> cumbersome if you use guests with lots of different kernels.
>
> Now back to me trying to get the host and guest to agree (and keep
> agreeing) on what time it is, I tried installed the guest additions (in
> the guest as well as the host), restarted and reprovisioned the image
> but to no avail.  I keep losing 20 seconds per minute on the guest.
>
> I'll have another look again tomorrow and will try a matching version of
> the additions (if available).  Failing that, I guess I'll have to take a
> look at the various virtualbox settings and command-line options.

See above.

> I did see something mentioning power management interfering and causing
> erratic behaviour.  This may be a factor because the battery of the
> laptop that I'm testing on is close to dying (but I test when on AC
> power).  Given that, I guess I could give Virtualbox a go on the target
> system(s) and see what happens.
>
> Anyway, the purpose is to keep my VMs on time, one way or another.  It
> is just that a lot of the virtualization/containerization software out
> there comes with, and often defaults to using, Virtualbox 

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Gregory Nowak]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:44:17PM -0500, zap wrote:
> > I do have one question though, what ascii/stretch package name(s) should
> > I pass to `apt-get install`?  Here's what I get for APT sources that
> > only reference `ascii{,-security,-updates,-backports}`.
> >
> >   $ apt-cache search virtualbox-guest
> >   virtualbox-guest-dkms - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition 
> > module source for dkms
> >   virtualbox-guest-source - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition 
> > module source
> >   virtualbox-guest-utils - x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest 
> > utilities
> >   virtualbox-guest-x11 - x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities

At the very least, you want virtualbox-guest-dkms, and
virtualbox-guest-utils. If your guest has x installed, then you'll
want virtualbox-guest-x11 as well.

> >
> > # There is no virtualbox-guest-additions-iso for ascii/stretch, only for
> > # jessie, buster and sid.  The virtualbox-guest-additions package for
> > # wheezy just transitions to virtualbox-guest-additions-iso.

They way I see it, one advantage of not using the iso is that the
packages will automatically be pulled in when upgraded versions are
available. So no need to mount a new iso, and upgrade by hand.

> >
> > From what I read in the package descriptions, virtualbox-guest-utils and
> > virtualbox-guest-x11 provide "stuff" to install in the guest.  How does
> > that jive with installing these on the host?  Or should I install these
> > on the guest?  Does that mean the guest also needs virtualbox-guest-dkms
> > (and the toolchain required to build)?  That would suck pretty badly,
> > IMO.

All of these are installed in the guest, not in the host. Yes, the
virtualbox-guest-dkms is the source part of the kernel modules that
would be built by using dkms. The toolchain parts aren't that big. If
you have another system with a toolchain and an identical running
kernel, you should be able to install virtualbox-guest-dkms there,
build the modules, and copy them over into your guest's
lib/modules. The system the modules would be built on doesn't need to
be a virtualbox guest as far as I know.

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[zap]

> Can't check right now, but I don't think so.  If it's not installed,
> I'll give it a try (on Wednesday probably, don't have time tomorrow)
> and report back.
>
> I do have one question though, what ascii/stretch package name(s) should
> I pass to `apt-get install`?  Here's what I get for APT sources that
> only reference `ascii{,-security,-updates,-backports}`.
>
>   $ apt-cache search virtualbox-guest
>   virtualbox-guest-dkms - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module 
> source for dkms
>   virtualbox-guest-source - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition 
> module source
>   virtualbox-guest-utils - x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest 
> utilities
>   virtualbox-guest-x11 - x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
>
> # There is no virtualbox-guest-additions-iso for ascii/stretch, only for
> # jessie, buster and sid.  The virtualbox-guest-additions package for
> # wheezy just transitions to virtualbox-guest-additions-iso.
>
> From what I read in the package descriptions, virtualbox-guest-utils and
> virtualbox-guest-x11 provide "stuff" to install in the guest.  How does
> that jive with installing these on the host?  Or should I install these
> on the guest?  Does that mean the guest also needs virtualbox-guest-dkms
> (and the toolchain required to build)?  That would suck pretty badly,
> IMO.
>
> # OK, so I had three more questions.  Hope you don't mind.
>
> Thanks for the possible cluebat.
>
> Hope this help,

If you want something that is completely free software for
virtualization try aqemu, best of all the creator of this software still
works on it and let me tell you, I have had only tiny issues with the
software. this is from someone who uses an old x200 libreboot device. :)
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Gregory,

Gregory Nowak writes:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:55:42AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> The only issue I have at the moment is that the box' clock runs behind
>> at the pace of 20 seconds to the minute!  That's despite the fact that
>> both the host OS and the Vagrant box have ntp/openntpd installed.  The
>> host OS' clock stays in sync.  Both use the same set of NTP servers and
>> can communicate with them.
>
> You do have guest additions installed, right?

Can't check right now, but I don't think so.  If it's not installed,
I'll give it a try (on Wednesday probably, don't have time tomorrow)
and report back.

I do have one question though, what ascii/stretch package name(s) should
I pass to `apt-get install`?  Here's what I get for APT sources that
only reference `ascii{,-security,-updates,-backports}`.

  $ apt-cache search virtualbox-guest
  virtualbox-guest-dkms - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module 
source for dkms
  virtualbox-guest-source - x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module 
source
  virtualbox-guest-utils - x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
  virtualbox-guest-x11 - x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities

# There is no virtualbox-guest-additions-iso for ascii/stretch, only for
# jessie, buster and sid.  The virtualbox-guest-additions package for
# wheezy just transitions to virtualbox-guest-additions-iso.

From what I read in the package descriptions, virtualbox-guest-utils and
virtualbox-guest-x11 provide "stuff" to install in the guest.  How does
that jive with installing these on the host?  Or should I install these
on the guest?  Does that mean the guest also needs virtualbox-guest-dkms
(and the toolchain required to build)?  That would suck pretty badly,
IMO.

# OK, so I had three more questions.  Hope you don't mind.

Thanks for the possible cluebat.

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Antonio Volpicelli]

hi

I have builded virtualbox from debian source (stretch version),

I do the tests for a couple of days and will upload the packages on hezeh.



On 05/11/2017 02:55, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

 jessie works fine.  That is, it installs without errors
and virtualbox images start fine (based on my provisioning Debian jessie
images and ssh-ing into them).

Using either virtualbox package with the stock linux-image-amd64 from
jessie-backports (4.9+80~bpo8+1) however does *not* work.  Installation
fails with a compile error of the vboxdrv kernel module.  It looks like
the kernel API has changed (unsurprisingly when going from  a major
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Gregory Nowak]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:55:42AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> The only issue I have at the moment is that the box' clock runs behind
> at the pace of 20 seconds to the minute!  That's despite the fact that
> both the host OS and the Vagrant box have ntp/openntpd installed.  The
> host OS' clock stays in sync.  Both use the same set of NTP servers and
> can communicate with them.

You do have guest additions installed, right?

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi,

fsmithred writes:

> On 10/25/2017 08:05 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1)
>> or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64
>> (3.16+63) from jessie works fine.  That is, it installs without errors
>> and virtualbox images start fine (based on my provisioning Debian jessie
>> images and ssh-ing into them).
>>
>> Using either virtualbox package with the stock linux-image-amd64 from
>> jessie-backports (4.9+80~bpo8+1) however does *not* work.  Installation
>> fails with a compile error of the vboxdrv kernel module.  It looks like
>> the kernel API has changed (unsurprisingly when going from  a major
>> version of 3 to 4).  Neither virtualbox package seems to deal with this,
>> not even the one from backports.
>>
>> Next move is checking whether things work in ascii because my laptop at
>> the office doesn't really work with a 3.16 kernel.
>
> Good luck with that. There is no virtualbox package in ascii/stretch. You
> can get the packages from virtualbox.org, and those will work in ascii.
>
> OK, that's weird - there's one in ascii-backports but not in
> stretch-backports. I don't know what that's about. A few minutes of
> googling tells me what I already know - it's not in stretch. Maybe someone
> else knows the right words to search to find out why that is.

There is a virtualbox package in stretch-backports (and buster and sid).
See https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=virtualbox

This is the package that is "merged" into ascii-backports.  It installs
without any problem against the ascii vanilla kernel (linux-image-amd64
in my case).

I've been using it at the office and it seems to work (depending on your
definition of "work").  I've used in combination with a Vagrant box that
provides a debian/jessie64 based Docker capable Jenkins slave agent.
The only issue I have at the moment is that the box' clock runs behind
at the pace of 20 seconds to the minute!  That's despite the fact that
both the host OS and the Vagrant box have ntp/openntpd installed.  The
host OS' clock stays in sync.  Both use the same set of NTP servers and
can communicate with them.

As to why virtualbox is not in stretch, that's detailed in BTS#794466.
Long story short, it's because the Debian and Oracle policies for CVEs
are at odds.  Debian does not allow upstream version bumps for stable
but Oracle only releases their security *and other* fixes via version
bumps and it appears to be too difficult the separate the other fixes
from the security ones.  The stable-backports, testing and unstable
suites don't have this version restriction so can use the upstream as
is.  From what I read in the BTS, I'd expect the same to happen for
buster, i.e. virtualbox getting dropped from buster when that enters
freeze and to resurface in buster-backports after a while.

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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[fsmithred]

On 10/25/2017 08:05 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1)
> or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64
> (3.16+63) from jessie works fine.  That is, it installs without errors
> and virtualbox images start fine (based on my provisioning Debian jessie
> images and ssh-ing into them).
> 
> Using either virtualbox package with the stock linux-image-amd64 from
> jessie-backports (4.9+80~bpo8+1) however does *not* work.  Installation
> fails with a compile error of the vboxdrv kernel module.  It looks like
> the kernel API has changed (unsurprisingly when going from  a major
> version of 3 to 4).  Neither virtualbox package seems to deal with this,
> not even the one from backports.
> 
> Next move is checking whether things work in ascii because my laptop at
> the office doesn't really work with a 3.16 kernel.
> 

Good luck with that. There is no virtualbox package in ascii/stretch. You
can get the packages from virtualbox.org, and those will work in ascii.

OK, that's weird - there's one in ascii-backports but not in
stretch-backports. I don't know what that's about. A few minutes of
googling tells me what I already know - it's not in stretch. Maybe someone
else knows the right words to search to find out why that is.

$   apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1
  Version table:
 5.1.30-dfsg-1 0
100 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ceres/contrib amd64 Packages
 10 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ buster/contrib amd64 Packages
 10 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ sid/contrib amd64 Packages
 5.1.28-dfsg-1~bpo9+1 0
100 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-backports/contrib
amd64 Packages
 5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2 0
200 http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports/contrib
amd64 Packages
 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1 0
500 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/contrib amd64
Packages
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Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Ozi, list,

Ozi Traveller writes:

> Has anyone installed virtualbox from jessie-backports? There is a systemd
> dependency, but not sure whether it's functional or just a stub.

I don't see where the systemd dependency is.  Here's what I get

  $ apt-cache -t jessie-backports depends virtualbox | grep systemd
  $

Yup, no hits at all so virtualbox does not have a *direct* dependency on
systemd.  BTW, this is for an APT cache that was last updated a couple
of minutes ago.

A for using virtualbox on jessie, I just had occasion to try that out at
the office when using vagrant.  Here's what I found for the linux-image
and virtualbox combinations on jessie w/ and w/o backports.

Using the virtualbox package from either jessie (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1)
or jessie-backports (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) with a stock linux-image-amd64
(3.16+63) from jessie works fine.  That is, it installs without errors
and virtualbox images start fine (based on my provisioning Debian jessie
images and ssh-ing into them).

Using either virtualbox package with the stock linux-image-amd64 from
jessie-backports (4.9+80~bpo8+1) however does *not* work.  Installation
fails with a compile error of the vboxdrv kernel module.  It looks like
the kernel API has changed (unsurprisingly when going from  a major
version of 3 to 4).  Neither virtualbox package seems to deal with this,
not even the one from backports.

Next move is checking whether things work in ascii because my laptop at
the office doesn't really work with a 3.16 kernel.

# FTR, my test were done on old, decommissioned laptop where that 3.16
# kernel works like a charm :)

Hope this helps,
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Re: [DNG] virtualbox-dkms fails to build on Devuan

[KatolaZ]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:22:24AM +0200, Jaromil wrote:

[cut]

> 
> the we-are-not-so-sure solution is to add to our base-files package
> this symlink OR an additional /etc/debian_release containing the
> corresponding base distro we use, OR something else we may come up
> with.
> 

This could work on new installs, but must be done with care on systems
which have been upgraded form Debian, since they already have
debian_release. 

My2Cents

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Re: [DNG] virtualbox-dkms fails to build on Devuan

[Jaromil]

dear Thaddeus,

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote:

>   Greetings!  I have been using Devuan Jessie 1.0 Beta2 for nearly
> two months.  I regularly update the system.  Once I had virtualbox
> running fine but then removed it.  Since then the kernel has been
> upgraded at least twice.  I have reinstalled virtualbox and all the
> components are working except virtualbox-dkms fails to build.

this is due to the fact virtualbox has introduced new distro checks
that are ignoring the existance of devuan.

the quick solution is

# ln -s /etc/devuan_version /etc/debian_version

the lenghty solution is to send a patch to virtualbox developers
adding devuan to the check right before or after debian.

the we-are-not-so-sure solution is to add to our base-files package
this symlink OR an additional /etc/debian_release containing the
corresponding base distro we use, OR something else we may come up
with.

If there are expert opinions on this issue, I'd like to debate the
third solution and perhaps act upon it since this problem does affects
also other packages.

ciao




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Re: [DNG] virtualbox-dkms fails to build on Devuan

[Gregory Nowak]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:35:24PM -0500, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote:
> Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) ...

This isn't from jessie, it's from backports.

> Building for 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64

This is also from backports, not from jessie.

From the vbox changelog:
"* Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286)"



Either downgrade your kernel, or upgrade to virtualbox 5.1.12 or higher.

Greg


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