DKMS module and recipe for target '.../virtualbox/5.2.34/build/vboxdrv' failed

Fri Jun 19 00:27:16 EDT 2020

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:13:00 +0200, Greg KH said:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:41:23AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I recently upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 x86_64 to the 5.4.0-37 kernel.
> > VirtualBox died, and I am trying to reinstall virtualbox-dkms. The
> > reinstall fails because the build fails. The log is below.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to solve the problem?
>
> Ask the out-of-tree virtualbox developers to fix their code to work with
> the newer kernel source.  Nothing we can do about that, sorry.

Won't do any good, because...

> cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.34/build/make.log

5.2.34 is a few releases back. 6.1.10 is out, and supports the 5.7 kernel (and
most of the fixes to support 5.8-rc1 have already landed for 6.1.12).
They fixed that problem probably close to a year ago.
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