[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#875941: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org> (Re: virtualbox-guest-dkms module build fails)

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

>But that kernel came from neither testing nor unstable:
>$ apt-cache policy linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64
>        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64
>Surely stable should have mutually compatible versions of kernel and at
>least virtualbox guest tools?


there is *no* vbox in stable.

rmadison -u debian virtualbox
virtualbox | 4.1.42-dfsg-1+deb7u1         | oldoldstable                    | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 4.3.18-dfsg-3                | oldstable-kfreebsd/contrib      | source
virtualbox | 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports/contrib        | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1         | oldstable/contrib               | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2          | jessie-backports/contrib        | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 5.1.26-dfsg-2~bpo9+1         | stretch-backports-debug/contrib | source
virtualbox | 5.1.26-dfsg-2~bpo9+1         | stretch-backports/contrib       | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 5.1.26-dfsg-2                | testing/contrib                 | source, amd64, i386
virtualbox | 5.1.28-dfsg-1                | unstable-debug/contrib          | source
virtualbox | 5.1.28-dfsg-1                | unstable/contrib                | source, amd64, i386


just use virtualbox in stable-backports (aka stretch-backports).

5.1.28 will go there in two/three days, as soon as it reaches Buster (aka testing).

G.