VirtualBox issues after upgrade

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> I have built a 10.4 machine, and installed the Sun version of Viru
> tualBox on it. I installed this as oposed to the OSE version as I could not
> get the OSE version to work corectly, and the Sun version has some nice
> things not yet in the OSE version.
>
> Now I have updated the machine using apt-get, which brought in a new
> kernel. Unfortunatley this has broken VirtualBox.
>
> When I try to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start by hand, I get:
>
> root at pbuild3:/etc/init.d# ./vboxdrv start
>  * Starting VirtualBox kernel module
>  * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
>
> Looking at dnesg, I only see:
>
> [   79.031511] warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy
> support in use)
> [   80.020096] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -306671965 ns)
>
> So, what can I do to fix this, and will this be a problem every time a new
> kernel comes down?

- Virtualbox for Lucid is not available from repositories yet.

- VirtualBox 3.2 32 & 64 for Lucid are available at Sun's site but
still Beta http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.0_BETA1/

Could you please post your current version of Lucid & VirtualBox?

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