Fixing the spawning session problem with VirtualBox

Last week, a kernel updated filtered its way down to my laptop. I didn’t notice any problems until a few days later when I tried to start a virtual machine under VirtualBox. A progress dialog popped up, proclaiming that VirtualBox was spawning a session. And it just hung there at 0%.

Then, I remembered a post on the Tombuntu blog that I’d read a day or two earlier. The post contained detailed instructions on how to fix this problem. It worked like a charm.

This just goes to show you that reading blogs isn’t a waste of time …

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