I did create a trusty chroot, installed the lts-xenial stack (mesa, kernel, xorg) and apt-get installed successfully the virtualbox-guest- dkms-lts-xenial package.
Setting up virtualbox-guest-utils-lts-xenial (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1~14.04.4) ... Setting up virtualbox-guest-dkms-lts-xenial (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1~14.04.4) ... of course the -vivid stack is not installable anymore and this is correct since I enabled the xenial stack apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11-lts-vivid Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: virtualbox-guest-x11-lts-vivid : Depends: xorg-video-abi-19 Depends: xserver-xorg-core-lts-vivid (>= 2:1.16.99.901) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424769 Title: virtualbox-guest-x11 uninstallable in Trusty with LTS Enablement Stacks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-lts-vivid/+bug/1424769/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs