On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tim Streater <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 28 Sep 2020, at 11:38, Tim Streater <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > I was using VirtualBox 6.1.12 under macOS Mojave 10.14.6 quite happily
> until
>
> > two days ago. I then installed Apple's Security Update 2020-005, which
> is I
>
> > imagine responsible for the following.
>
> >
>
> > The next time I wanted to start a VM, I was informed that a new version
> of
>
> > VirtualBox, 6.1.14, was available, so I downloaded and attempted to
> install
>
> > it. The install failed near the end of the process; the executable was
> written
>
> > but I think a kernel module was prevented from being installed. Trying
> to run
>
> > a VM gave a message about a missing kernel module. I was also unable to
>
> > re-install 6.1.12 which now fails at install in the same way.
>
>
> I was eventually able to install, and run the VMs, by disabling SIP on my
> machine. This is not ideal as both disabling and later re-enabling it each
> requires two restarts.
>
>
> --
> Cheers -- Tim
>

Thank you, Tim, for reporting this. I have two Macs running Mojave 10.14.6.
I'll know not to update VBox 6.1.12 until there's some word of a fix.

I have a third Mac running Catalina 10.15.7. Has anyone seen problems with
VBox 6.1.14 on Catalina?


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