Thanks. I'll confirm that I've successfully installed VirtualBox 6.0.8 on
two different Macs running 10.14.5.

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:01 AM Michael Thayer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As far as I know (I am not directly involved with this, so it may not be
> quite right), Apple added VirtualBox 6.0.8 to an online database of
> known-good software, and it can now be installed as long as you are
> online during the installation.  I think that a better solution is being
> worked on.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> 30.05.19 12:24, Thad Humphries wrote:
> > I am away from my office and that machine for the next week, but I will
> > try when I return (I don't want to try it on my laptop while on the
> road).
> >
> > What changed? From my logs, I see that I tried installing 6.0.8 on May
> > 22nd, the day before the announcement that the install should work.
> > Today's downloaded file is the same name, same size, and same checksums
> > as before. Did Apple insert an OS patch and not tell me? (It took
> > several days for me to get onto this list. I have checked the downloads
> > page every day since May 22nd. Had there been a new version number, or
> > some note about a change, I would have downloaded it and tried the
> install.)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:26 AM Michael Thayer
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Please see ticket #18645[1]
> >
> >     [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18645
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Michael
> >
> >     29.05.19 18:17, Thad Humphries wrote:
> >     > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 8:41 PM Thad Humphries
> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >     > <mailto:[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Attempting to upgrade from VirtualBox 6.0.6 to 6.0.8 on Mojave
> >     >     10.14.5 fails. I see similar problems already noted on this
> list
> >     >
> >      (ex, https://sourceforge.net/p/vbox-users/mailman/message/36667728/
> ).
> >     >
> >     >     I have tried the remedies described
> >     >
> >      at
> https://medium.com/@DMeechan/fixing-the-installation-failed-virtualbox-error-on-mac-high-sierra-7c421362b5b5
>  to
> >     >     no avail. These directions had worked last month for Mojave
> >     10.14.4
> >     >     and VirtualBox 6.0.6.
> >     >
> >     >     I can launch VirtualBox 6.0.8 r130520 (Qt5.6.3) after the
> >     >     installer's fail message. However trying to open a VM fails
> >     with the
> >     >     error message:
> >     >
> >     >         Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
> >     >
> >     >         Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
> >     >
> >     >         where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED
> >     (-1908)
> >     >         - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open
> returned
> >     >         ENOENT.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Interestingly VirtualBox-5.2.30-130521-OSX installed without any
> >     warning
> >     > whatsoever. The Wn8.1 VM with IE11 seems to run fine, so I may be
> able
> >     > to get by with v5.2.x until v6 is fixed.
>
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