According to the Debian bug report, uml-utilities is not required, nor suggested anymore. See section "6.5.1.1 Debian and Ubuntu hosts" in the virtualbox user manual (available e.g. from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). I will remove the suggestion in the next upload.
** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => In Progress -- missing dependencies for networking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154305 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