Virtualbox after 10.04 upgrade

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Sunday 23 May 2010, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Georgi Kourtev said the following at 05/22/2010 01:42 PM :
> > On Friday 21 May 2010 20:19:18 D. R. Evans wrote:
> >> D. R. Evans said the following at 05/01/2010 09:14 AM :
> >>> Georgi Kourtev said the following at 04/30/2010 05:33 AM :
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> 
> >>>> After the upgrade my virtaulbox mashine stopped working.
> >>>> While truing to run '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' I got
> >>>> message that the vboxdrv module cannot be unloaded.
> >> 
> >> For anyone who cares about this issue, the recommended fix is
> >> to remove the virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms package.
> >> 
> >>   Doc
> > 
> > Actually after the release of VB for Lucid, I did the upgrade
> > and all was back again immediately. Don't forget to change the
> > key for the repository as it has been changed from Sun's to
> > Oracle's.
> 
> I did the lucid update on my laptop and this bug was definitely
> still present. Having fixed the problem by following the advice
> to remove virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms, though, I'm still left with
> several other problems that make virtualbox unusable. I haven't
> had time to google yet and find the fixes for these bugs.

Georgi is obviously using the non-free Virtualbox, as am I. Neither 
of us seem to have significant problems, so there kind of is the 
question whether that would be an alternative for you?

  --Reinhold