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bratsmrad

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Registered: 2012-12-21

Posts: 2

VirtualBox downgrade

Hello,

I have an older Asus laptop. With last update of VirtualBox to 6.1 it stop working.  When I open virtual machine I get this message: VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).

From many web pages I found out that I have to downgrade Virtualbox (sadly I removed Pacman cache...).
I downloaded older version of VB from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2 (link "sources"), but I am not able to install it.
I tried install some versions from AUR but did not work.

Could you please give me some advice how to continue?
Many thanks.

Tomas

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 636

Re: VirtualBox downgrade

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive

bratsmrad

Member

Registered: 2012-12-21

Posts: 2

Re: VirtualBox downgrade

Hi,
thanks for reply, but there is not older version than 6.X (https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/v/virtualbox/).

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,102

Re: VirtualBox downgrade

You did try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin-5/  ?

That version doesn't seem to work with kernel 5.4.x , you could try linux-lts or applying the patch mentioned in bziurs comment.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2019-12-26 12:58:57)

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,928

Re: VirtualBox downgrade

Older package versions are moved to archive.org for example https://archive.org/download/archlinux_pkg_virtualbox
If you follow Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_restore_all_packages_to_a_specific_date redirects to archive.org will be handled automatically.