The issue with Xorg failing to start appears to be an incompatibility between the VirtualBox Guest Additions and the new version of the kernel. There is a workaround in the bug report here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6198 ** Bug watch added: Virtualbox Trac #6198 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6198 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535297 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs