Upgrading to 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:11:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:26:44 +1000, Peter wrote:
>>The virtual box kernal modules do not match this version of
>>VirtualBox.  
>
>I already mentioned kernel modules and dkms, so I would expect that you
>did some research and would have checked
>
>  dkms status; uname -r
>
>and then tried to build the virtualbox modules for the currently
>running kernel, first by
>
> sudo dkms autoinstall
>
>and then by running
>
> sudo dkms install vboxhost/$(echo $(dpkg -l virtualbox-5.1|grep
> ii)|cut -d" " -f3|cut -d- -f1)
>
>without the "$(echo $(dpkg -l virtualbox-5.1|grep ii)|cut -d" " -f3|cut
>-d- -f1)", I would expect you to replace it by the version in plain
>text.
>
>Likely you got a message that dkms.conf does not exist.
>
>You perhaps then used a search engine and found this information
>
>  https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html
>
>and tried running
>
>  sudo rcvboxdrv setup
>
>If not, then try running
>
>  sudo rcvboxdrv setup
>
>now and after that try running

  sudo rcvboxdrv setup

should already unload the old and load the new modules, so the
below quoted commands or a reboot seems not to be required.

If it should fail, there seems to be a log
file /var/log/vbox-install.log you could attach to a mail or post at
http://pastebin.com/ if it should be too long.

>  sudo vboxreload
>
>or
>
>  sudo modprobe -rv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci vboxdrv
>  sudo modprobe -av vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxpci
>
>or
>
>  restart the computer.
>
>>Does this mean I have to recreate my Virtual machines  
>
>Please, if we want to help you, we need to read your mails, don't make
>them unnecessarily long by repeating issues or by blind guesses.
>
>Instead please do what I ask you to do, always copy and past the
>_complete_ commands and their complete output.
>
>I'm quite sure you got more output, than you posted.

Regards,
Ralf