Broken VirtualBox

[Gilles Gravier]

Cesar,

On 07/01/2021 20:34, Rasec Solerom wrote:
> Hi all...  please excuse the long message, but I want to provide as
> much info as possible... Please I need help to solve this problem fast.
>
> I installed some updates this morning and now I can not start any of
> the VMs I have been using without problems.
> This is Ubuntu 20.04.1 and VirtualBox 6.1 installed from the Ubuntu
> repository.

I've had this happen... I've resorted to not using the Ubuntu version.

I use the official one from the Virtualbox.org web site
(https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads).

First uninstall any existing virtualbox component from the Ubuntu repos.

Then install the official VB repo. The latest today is focal which works
perfectly on 20.04.1. So :

    deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
focal contrib

Add the repo signing keys:

    wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O-
| sudo apt-key add -
    wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- |
sudo apt-key add -

It will install the latest 6.1.16 (as of today Jan 8th, 2021). From
there you can install the extensions.

    sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

It will directly run your existing VMs.


Gilles


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