VB problems with Debian 8.4 update?

[IntnsRed]

I routinely used a Win7 VB client/guest running on Debian stable to play a Windows game. All has been fine. The VM isn't tweaked or changed, even Windows update is turned off -- all that VM is used for is to play that game. This setup has worked fine for months.

Yesterday Debian updated its stable version from 8.3 to 8.4, which included a kernel update.

It used to be with VB that one would run a "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" to force VB to recompile a new kernel module. That no longer seems to be required (or at least I don't know how to do it).

After upgrading Debian to 8.4 this morning, VB locks Linux up. Neither the mouse or keyboard functions. SSH's into the box and attempting to terminate VB with kill results in Linux giving an ominous sounding message about a bug in the kernel. I'm assuming the root cause of this is the VB kernel module needing to be recompiled.

My questions:

Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

Is there a way to recompile the VB kernel module with VB 5?

[Perryg]

rcvboxdrv setup should do it ( elevated permission required )