Vboxdrv.service fails to start

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While waiting for Oracle to publish a new version of VirtualBox with the issue fixed, some workarounds are documented here:

Recent versions of VirtualBox (7.1.18, 7.2.8) can cause a system crash during package upgrades, VMs may fail to start

Note that the issue described here is a VirtualBox bug, it is not a Kicksecure bug. If you use virtualbox-installer-cli to install VirtualBox, you will get a recent version of VirtualBox from Oracle’s repository. VirtualBox 7.1.18 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 (the two latest versions at the time of this writing) both have a bug that results in a kernel oops when the vboxdrv kernel module is loaded if a particular hardening setting (kernel.kptr_restrict=2) is enabled. This setting is enabled by default …