yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference

[lauatic]

I want to install VirtualBox-6.0 on a host with CentOS 7. The "sudo yum install VirtualBox-6.0" has a null pointer deference in the vboxdrv driver and crashed the system. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

$ uname -r
4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"

[scottgus1]

First question is, does "yum" pull from CentOS's repository, or are you installing from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads ?

The CentOS repository has a forked version, which we don't support here. We can help if you download Virtualbox from the virtualbox.org link.

[lauatic]

I downloaded oracle_vbox.asc and virtualbox.repo files from the virtualbox org site. I verified the /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo points to the virtualbox org. Are these the right steps?

[scottgus1]

Honestly, I don't know. I'm really a Windows guy trying to expand my horizons. You could either wait for a Linux guru to confirm, or take a shot and see what happens.

There's some lines at the bottom of the downloads link:

Users of Oracle Linux / RHEL can add the Oracle Linux repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.
Users of Fedora can add the Fedora repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.

that look to me like it's right.

[socratis]

I want to install VirtualBox-6.0 on a host with CentOS 7.

"CentOS 7.x", there's no "CentOS 7". What's the "x"?

4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16

Are you running a pre-released CentOS version?

[lauatic]

$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)

[lauatic]

$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16 (lpnava@b5-mtpnr_lpnava-vm004) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jun 12 09:56:29 PDT 2019
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