Regarding patching virtualbox in 12.04

Pranav pps.pranav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 07:57:47 UTC 2013


I think it is better to download the Virtual Box deb file from its official
website instead of the ubuntu ppa or software centre as its a older version
and also the above mentioned issue will arise.
Regards,
Pranav


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Steffen Barszus <
steffenbpunkt at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2013/3/5 Chris Johnston <chrisjohnston at ubuntu.com>:
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> > On 03/05/2013 11:53 AM, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am writing this regarding the issues being faced by Virtualbox
> >> users in 12.04.
> >>
> >> 12.04 was released with kernel 3.2 and then the kernel 3.5 was
> >> offered as a possible upgrade. Most users are currently switching
> >> over to 3.5
>
> What makes it worse, is that at new installations, kernel 3.5 is the
> default. So this boils down to virtualbox being broken in LTS release
> by backport kernel
>
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