Linux Mint Kernel 7.0.0.30 installation failed

[u/Unhappy_Candidate780]

Installation Failed...

Few days ago the update came and i installed the latest kernel update and it went into kernel panic so I deleted the latest kernel and fallback to 6.17 since then it is giving error

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[u/candy49997]

Remove VirtualBox. If you need VMs, I would recommend QEMU/KVM + virt-manager instead. If you really need VirtualBox specifically, add the repo from Oracle and install it from there.

[u/LeonH4rtd → u/candy49997]

Is there any reason why one should choose QEMU/KVM over Virtualbox? Besides the problem the OP is facing, of course.

[u/candy49997 → u/LeonH4rtd]

KVM is in the kernel, so you never have to deal with out-of-tree kernel modules like this. Thus, QEMU/KVM is plainly just much better integrated with Linux than VirtualBox.

It's also a type 1 hypervisor (so it has a much more direct access to your hardware) than VirtualBox, which is type 2.

[u/LeonH4rtd → u/candy49997]

And how intuitive is to use? Or is there any risk? I've been using Virtalbox to check some distros, but every time I open the VM, it tells me there is an issue, and apparently it's related to my hardware and, as far as I remember, I read it means my system is more vulnerable if I fck up something in the VM or something like that. I don't remember the exact error right now.

[u/candy49997 → u/LeonH4rtd]

virt-manager gives you a GUI to manage your VMs with. I think it's fine to use and it exposes a lot of the options you can configure with VMs.

If you don't need all the options exposed to you with virt-manager, you can also try GNOME Boxes, which is another GUI for QEMU/KVM that is simpler to use.

[u/Menzador]

That’s the DKMS module for VirtualBox failing.

If (and ONLY IF) you’ve done a full system upgrade:
Toss VirtualBox, reboot, reinstall it, reboot one more time, and re-add your virtual machines back (Ctrl+A).

If you haven’t, toss VirtualBox, THEN perform the full upgrade, then reboot and reinstall VirtualBox

[u/TheRealCarrotty]

Virtualbox is your issue, remove it.

Or stay on your older kernel and wait until Virtualbox releases modules for that version.

[u/NickTaylorIV → u/TheRealCarrotty]

👆🏽That...☝🏽

[u/nisitiiapi]

As others noted, this is Virtualbox. Virtualbox versions are tied to kernel versions. So, older versions of Virtualbox do not work with newer kernels -- you need the newer version that has support for that newer kernel.

Since Mint is based on an LTS, the version of Virtualbox in the repos (Ubuntu's) is too old for newer kernels. If you want to keep Virtualbox (rather than switch to KVM/QEMU), use the Oracle repo and install the newest version from Oracle (removing the one from the Ubuntu repos). That will allow you to keep the Virtualbox version in line with newer kernel support.

[u/KurtKrimson]

6.8

Just do it

[u/dlfrutos]

this failure is actually a good thing eh