installing virtul box on ubuntu

Zaki · Post by **Zaki** » 15. Jan 2009, 18:01

Hy Guys
I am installing virtual box on ubuntu. After installation I make a virtual xp machine. On run the massege appers as pic. Plz help

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Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:25

After the install, did you check if the vboxdrv device is created properly and that you are a member of the VBoxUsers group?

iliketomoveitmoveit · Post by **iliketomoveitmoveit** » 16. Jan 2009, 13:54

I'm having the same problem, only on OpenSUSE. Would appreciate help as well. (the vboxusers group is checked, but when i checked the vboxdrv it said it failed and to look in a log, which was empty)

Zaki · Post by **Zaki** » 16. Jan 2009, 14:21

I dont know about membership. I will check it. I checked the driver and I think it is not created in '/etc/init.d/

Zaki · Post by **Zaki** » 16. Jan 2009, 14:50

how could I may be a member of virtual box users groups.

iliketomoveitmoveit · Post by **iliketomoveitmoveit** » 16. Jan 2009, 17:33

Type the following in the terminal (Applications » Utilities » Terminal or K » System » Konsole):
sudo adduser yourusername vboxusers

(I googled it)

frijoles · Post by **frijoles** » 16. Jan 2009, 18:06

hmmm I got the error message after a kernel upgrade. I just adapted the linux-headers ther was a mistake on it. Check which kernel version installed is

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root@host1:~#  uname -a

which linux-header are installed?

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root@host1:~$ dpkg -l |grep linux-headers-generic

does the linux-headers macht to the kernel version?

have a look to this topic in the forum

cheers
frijoles

iliketomoveitmoveit · Post by **iliketomoveitmoveit** » 16. Jan 2009, 20:36

What's the code if I'm using SUSE? the first one works, the second linux-header gives me an error.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 18. Jan 2009, 19:52

iliketomoveitmoveit wrote:What's the code if I'm using SUSE? the first one works, the second linux-header gives me an error.

For SuSE, it should be kernel-devel that is needed. Linux-headers is a debian thing.

If you don't have /etc/init.d/vboxdrv, please reinstall VB.