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I am having some problems installing Virtualbox on my Elementary Freya. Due to some hardware, I needed to install Linux Kernel 4.4. However, I can't seem to install Virtualbox properly. (I was using rc3 previously, just updated to rc7)

$ uname -r
4.4.0-040400rc7-generic

I downloaded and tried both version from the website.

virtualbox-5.0_5.0.12-104815-Ubuntu-trusty_amd64.deb
virtualbox-5.0_5.0.12-104815-Ubuntu-wily_amd64.deb

Both of it fails.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.4.0-040400rc7-generic is not supported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.4.0-040400rc7-gen onsult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.12/build/make.log for more information....failed!
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

Any ideas how to fix this? Many thanks in advance.

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  • try sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-dkms and let me know :). Also see here
    – Ravan
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 10:59
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    have you tried sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms ?
    – Ravan
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 11:05
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    @Ravan running that command states that dkms and build-essential are both up-to-date, and linux-headers-4.4.0 cannot be downloaded through apt-get. I downloaded the kernel update from here: kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-rc7-wily
    – jellene
    Commented Jan 10, 2016 at 7:33
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    then try installing headers manually and let me know
    – Ravan
    Commented Jan 10, 2016 at 9:59
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    @Sneetsher No, updating to any of the 4.4 linux headers won't work. I haven't tried downgrading back to the original packaged linux headers for 14.04 LTS. Will reply here when I do.
    – jellene
    Commented Jan 21, 2016 at 5:09

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I needed gcc4.9-multilib to recompile my DKMS modules after the upgrade.You can grab it out of the toolbox beta repository from Ubuntu.

If that didn't work, post the log:

cat /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.12/build/make.log
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It seems the version number is out of range of supported kernels because have this format 4.4.0-040400rc7-generic but it have to be something like X.X.X-XXX

You could use a kernel from ubuntu repositories. Do you really need to use the 4.4 version?

sudo apt install linux-generic-lts-wily
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  • everything works like a charm with that format too.
    – Phil Jacobs
    Commented Apr 1, 2016 at 10:08

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