Virtual Box error

kkazia · 12-18-2015, 08:50 AM

I am getting the error "the virtualbox kernel service is not running" when i boot up, what is missing or how can solve this

thanks

I am using LinuxMint

Habitual · 12-18-2015, 09:14 AM

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopi...10020#p1096380

erik2282 · 12-18-2015, 09:15 AM

http://askubuntu.com/questions/64299...-is-not-runnin

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68056

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=210020

I just googled "the virtualbox kernel service is not running" and got several hits. Have you tried google searching?

Habitual · 12-18-2015, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkazia

I am getting the error "the virtualbox kernel service is not running" when i boot up, what is missing or how can solve this

Yeah, so? It's not an error, it's a message and it goes away. Nothing to worry about.
But if you still want to worry about it:

Quote:

I just purged virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-dkms and that solved the pop-up message.
Do this only if you're running mint natively i.e., not in a virtual box.

Reboot. Done.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopi...10020#p1096380