Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Virtualbox on Debian Trixie, Date: 4 Mar 2026 03:42:44 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10nmp1b$n560$6@dont-email.me> <10o5l9v$1n9a7$1@dont-email.me> <10o6b1n$nfqk$1@news1.tnib.de> <10o6f79$1uql3$6@dont-email.me> <10o6uoc$pr27$1@news1.tnib.de> <10o72nu$26pa9$1@dont-email.me> <10o7f8r$2bk44$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hPiJ50HrPCtN/4oWyipQywaum5i1Qq/c/wUXsIJkiTAxF0NJIZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:KR3qlxyjQJ8m+p8VljgznplH58Q= sha256:BsBRl09ldGUBgdmwktzjerMrtkgHQaN/iibTuopw/bQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82368 On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:11:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > 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 I'll confirm the next time I see him but I have the suspicion the person who said they put VirtualBox on LM Cinnamon 23.3 got as far as seeing the VB dialog. You can select an iso, specify RAM, disk space, and cores, and everything is fine. Then you hit 'Start' and it all goes to hell.