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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Virtualbox on Debian Trixie,
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:11:07 +0000
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On 03/03/2026 20:00, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 16:37:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Oddly enough my Mint has kvm modules loaded and runs virtual box just
>> fine Mint 20.3
> 
> VirtualBox fails on Mint 22.3.  When trying to start the VM with the kvm
> modules removed from the kernel, it doesn't find its driver and says to
> install virtualbox-dkms. Trying to install that fails and says it needs
> virtualbox-source and virtualbox-modules. That also fails.
> 
> Note that 22,3 is using the 6.17 kernel.
> 

Thanks., I wont bother to upgrade for a while then

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