Installing dpkg-dev solved the compilation problem. The DKMS modules now seem to compile on all systems.
However on Lubuntu and Ubuntu Mate, even though modules now compile, the service is not started automatically even though it is shown as enabled. This matches the situation reported at the beginning. Also, my experimentation has shown up another issue. On all systems the 16.04->18.04 upgrade resulted in the guest packages being uninstalled. Is this a fault? If so where would I report it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1753430 Title: virtualbox-guest-utils.service not starting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1753430/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
