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virtualbox-guest-dkms not found for 21.10

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To setup a virtualbox GUI VM, is virtualbox-guest-dkms necessary for Ubuntu 21.10? Has virtualbox-guest-dkms been replaced for 21.10?

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

Their is virtualbox-dkms
Here is the packages for virtual box.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jammy&section=all&arch=any&keywords=virtualbox&searchon=names
Here is the manual for virtual box.
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html
Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish 22.04 currently in Beta release.
Final release of 22.04 is 4/21/2022

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J Pad (digitaldenizen) said : 		#2

Sorry, I intended my question for Ubuntu 21.10, not 22.10. Question has been corrected.

Ubuntu 21.10 does not have the package virtualbox-guest-dkms (https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/allpackages). It does have the slightly distinct package virtualbox-dkms.

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said (last edit ): 		#3

https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/virtualbox-dkms
The name changed to virtualbox-dkms. Yes it too is still there.
Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=virtualbox&searchon=names&suite=impish&section=all
I installed virtualbox from Oracle : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
The Ubuntu 21.04 is the same for 22.10.It is the same as installing from Ubuntu Repository.

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J Pad (digitaldenizen) said : 		#4

Thanks for responding.

I can use Vagrant to have Virtualbox successfully launch “bento/ubuntu-20.04” (https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/ubuntu-20.04). Before seeing the desktop GUI, the following APT packages are installed: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, virtualbox-guest-x11 and virtualbox-guest-dkms.

I tried the same for “bento/ubuntu-21.10”, except with virtualbox-guest-dkms replaced with virtualbox-dkms. However, it was not successful.

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J Pad (digitaldenizen) said : 		#5

I have since successfully employed Vagrant to launch a Virtualbox GUI VM with “bento/ubuntu-22.04”. I accomplished this with a minimal GUI configuration, which was having just the gdm3 and xfce4 apt packages installed. It seems the issue I was encountering was not due to a missing APT package. Rather, it was due to the Virtualbox VM display settings. In particular, the graphics controller was set to VMSVGA and Remote Display was disabled.