Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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Re: Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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The error message means that you are running a VirtualBox 6.1.35/36 application while having the VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or older) kernel modules installed. A typical sign of a messed up installation. I'd suggest to uninstall all VirtualBox-related packages and only install the Oracle-provided VirtualBox 6.1.36.
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Re: Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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fth0 wrote:The error message means that you are running a VirtualBox 6.1.35/36 application while having the VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or older) kernel modules installed. A typical sign of a messed up installation. I'd suggest to uninstall all VirtualBox-related packages and only install the Oracle-provided VirtualBox 6.1.36.
Mh I already tryed to reinstall VirtualBox 3 times but I always got this error. What else should I do to to have the kernel modules aligned? I will try to purge all
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Re: Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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fth0 wrote:The error message means that you are running a VirtualBox 6.1.35/36 application while having the VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or older) kernel modules installed. A typical sign of a messed up installation. I'd suggest to uninstall all VirtualBox-related packages and only install the Oracle-provided VirtualBox 6.1.36.
Should I Try downloading and instlaling this?
( I don't remember where I downloaded it before)
The file is a screenshot of the website, I mean this: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.36/

I should install this version?
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Re: Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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Yes. Either the correct one (*) of those containing "Debian" in their name, or the one with "Linux_amd64.run" at the end, which should work on most Linux distributions.

(*) Depending on the Debian version's codename that your Kali Linux is based on.
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Re: Cannot Install Windows 10/11 on VirtualBox

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fth0 wrote:Yes. Either the correct one (*) of those containing "Debian" in their name, or the one with "Linux_amd64.run" at the end, which should work on most Linux distributions.

(*) Depending on the Debian version's codename that your Kali Linux is based on.
So I got a missing dependency on the installation but it looks installed, but now when I try to run virtualbox I get this error message:

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The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (5.18.0-kali5-amd64) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
And sudo /sbin/vboxconfig doesn't exists :/
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