Kernel driver is no longer installed after kernel update (from 5.15 to 5.19).

[Atalanttore]

Hi

I am using VirtualBox 7.0.6 r155176 on Linux Mint 21.1.

Yesterday Linux Mint updated the kernel from version 5.15 to version 5.19. Exactly since then, my virtual machine with Windows 10 in VirtualBox on Linux Mint stopped working.

The following error message appears when starting the virtual machine.

Error message: Kernel driver not installed

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I have already executed the following command in the shell.

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sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig'

The command only created the attached vbox-setup.log file.

[fth0]

The VirtualBox distribution-specific downloads (e.g. virtualbox-7.0_7.0.6-155176~Ubuntu~jammy_amd64.deb) expect a Linux kernel and a gcc version compatible to those which were initially part of the Linux distribution. I'd suggest to try the distribution-agnostic VirtualBox download named VirtualBox-7.0.6-155176-Linux_amd64.run.

[Atalanttore]

Does the package manager also take care of installing updates for VirtualBox with this type of installation?

[fth0]

Since this is a generic installer for all Linux distributions with all sorts of package managers, I don't think so.

[hefink]

You need to update the compiler gcc to gcc-12 package in order to successfully install virtualbox on a 5.19 kernel. Don't forget to check the symlinks and make them point to gcc-12 before re-installing virtualbox.

[Atalanttore]

Thank you for pointing this out.