This isn't a bug in software-properties. What I can't decide is if it's
a bug in virtualbox-guest* or ubuntu-drivers-common. Basically, here's
what's happening:
1) The virtualbox-guest* packages have a modalias for the "guest services", but
not the VGA controller.
2) We pulled the DKMS drivers into the kernel.
3) The above situation confuses ubuntu-drivers-common, which really wants to
install vbox-dkms, but we have it builtin.
4) Nothing wants to install vbox-x11, which we actually want.
So, the lack of modaliases on vbox-x11 is definitely a vbox bug, and the
dependencies are also a bit strong between vbox packages (we should drop
some recommends to suggests, to stop trying to forcefully install
compilers to get an X driver).
That said, we might also want to quirk the ubuntu-drivers-common
detection a bit to either hide vbox-dkms altogether, or actually let us
use it if it's a potential upgrade. Currently, neither of these options
is in play, and we see it, but it's greyed out, which is amazingly
confusing.
** Package changed: software-properties (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-drivers-
common (Ubuntu)
** Also affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Service in 15.04
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