Subj : VirtualBox 6.8 & Kernel 6
To   : All
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat Aug 24 2024 19:19:00


Hi Folks!

I was temporarily knocked off-line because of an incompatibility between 
Kernel 6.8.0-45 and VirtualBox 6.1.

Problem is something broke between the two.  Solution is to upgrade to
VB 7.0.

I found this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1498202/how-to-upgrade-virtualbox-6-1-38
-to-7-0-on-ubuntu-22-04
 How to upgrade VirtualBox 6.1.38 to 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04?
 
The one answer (scroll down a bit to "1 Answer", semi-ignore the 
comments to the OP) gives instructions.

For me a couple of the commands were a little confusing: looked like 
three command lines but were really only two.  Between the Ask Ubuntu 
answer and the source post at   
https://kifarunix.com/upgrade-virtualbox-6-x-to-virtualbox-7-x-on-ubuntu
-debian/?expand_article=1
 
I got things resolved -- I'm baa-aa-ack! <g>   ...I did have a problem 
with the USB devices (error pop-up on initial boot of the selected VB):

<quote>
Add every user who needs to access USB devices from a VirtualBox guests 
to the group vboxusers. Either use the OS user management tools or run 
the following command as root:
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username
<quote>
 
I ran the command. Another part of the quoted sources said to run 
'newgrp' to update -- didn't work for me.  Rebooted -- that worked!


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