Larry, kernel-default-base is not supposed to be installed if you install kernel-default, it's a "smaller version" of kernel-default, so just leave it out. I'm running virtualbox 5.2.16 on Windows 10 (no idea which exact version). I'll not be in the office tomorrow, so can only get more info on Wednesday. The original oops from comment#1 is no longer reproducible, now I'm seeing the BUG: messages from comment#7 *if* i let the vboxguest/vboxsf load by udev or whatever loads them early. If vboxguest is blacklisted and thus only loaded later by init script/systemd service, then everything is fine. As Takashi suggested the original oops might be from memory corruption and the now appearing BUG: messages also point to memory corruption problems (at least to my untrained eye...), my guess was that this is some hidden incompatibility of the virtualbox-guest-kmp-default built against a slightly older kernel version that might have changed some internal KABI unnoticed or exposed a now fixed bug, thus my suggestion to rebuild virtualbox-guest-kmp against the current update kernel.