Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

[Steven Davies-Morris]

David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Steven Davies-Morris 
> <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
> 
>> The upgrade was straightforward. Add the virtualbox link and the 
>> checksum to the repos and have at it. Or download and install.
>> Either way it cleanly overwrote my older 1.6.4 Vbox.
> 
> Pretty straightforward, although installing 'virtualbox' from the 
> added repository installed 1.66 and not 2.0 - I had to tell it 
> explicitly to install virtualbox-2.0. Also noted that it removed 
> virtualbox-ose, but did not remove the virtualbox-ose modules for
> my kernel, I had to do that myself, and then (re)install 2.0. And,
> the name of the binary has changed now to VirtualBox or something. 
> 'virtualbox' by itself wants to install virtualbox-ose (i.e., the 
> prior version). I suppose that means now that I'm running the full 
> non-open binary, but I guess that's OK.
> 
> Transitioning in progress, I will have to try 64 bit guests soon!

Good luck to you. As soon as I get the kids off to bed I'm taking it
back to 1.6.4. Hopefully doing that won't be fraught with peril.
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