Hardware Enablement Stack notice?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 08:55:47 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>I've been running LTS releases since 10.04 and this is the first one
>of these notices I have received.  At first I was confused about it
>but I read the wiki and some other links and I have a better
>understanding now.

You provide information that isn't required, but you doesn't provide
the required information.

When did you get what notice on what Ubuntu release?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL

Assuming you were using a backported kernel and support reached the
End-of-life when upgrading to another Ubuntu release, then you most
likely don't need a backported kernel anymore and you could switch to
the "regular" kernel, generic, lowlatency or what ever, without "lts"
extension.

>I am running VirtualBox 5.0.26 which Synaptic shows in Local/Contrib.
>How will running this update effect my VBox install?

What update, Ubuntu release, just linux-foo-lts, virtualbox? The latest
version of virtualbox provided by official repositories is 5.0.24. If
it's possible to build kernel modules for virtualbox depends on the
installed kernel version (and unlikely in your case, possible kernel
patches) and version of virtualbox.

If you are using virtualbox from a third party, you would get best
support by the third party providing this version.

There are different ways that might build or not build the needed
kernel modules. I posted them this morning, to this mailing list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-August/287015.html

E.g. for the currently running kernel those might work:

sudo dkms autoinstall

sudo dkms install vboxhost/<version_of_virtualbox>

sudo rcvboxdrv setup

Regards,
Ralf