I'm attempting to get VirtualBox OSE to run. I installed it with Synaptic, created a VM, and tried to start it. This came up:

And then this:

I've searched for this extensively but nobody seems to have my problem. The solution I've found is to enter these commands into the terminal:

sudo aptitude update
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...repid_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Ubuntu_intrepid_i386.deb
sudo aptitude reinstall dkms
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

But when I get to the sudo dpkg... part here's the terminal output:

And the rest of the process doesn't work at all.

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Did you do /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup?? And is DKMS installed??

The latter error is because your wget failed, of couse the next steps will fail. Whatydid wget say?

The wget outputs this:

DKMS is installed, and I've reinstalled it several times. When reinstalling, this appears:



And as for the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup, this is the result:

You actually have to type the whole thing:

The filename is different.

Okayokayokay.

I feel like an idiot. My genius friend explained everything to me and now I feel totally stupid for not seeing the problem myself. Thanks for your help, AlucardZero and Quakeboy02.

As root /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup returns the usage phrase: {start|stop|restart|status} and as user sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup returns the same thing. I can't get this to work. what is wrong? Thanks.

In attempting to set up Virtualbox, this command is supposed to be run: user@computer ~ $ /etc/init.d/vboxdrv

This is the result regardless if this is entered as root or as user or as sudo:
* Usage: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv {start|stop|restart|status}

What is wrong

Please open your own threads in the future, rather than tail-ending on another similar one.

The command is precisely what I posted. Nothing more and nothing less.

I copied and pasted your line:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

It just returns the usage {start|stop|restart|status} line. I still need to know what's going on.

That makes no sense. Have you tried running the restart command, then?

This is the result of running

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv restart:

stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
No suitable module for running kernel found.

OK, apparently we are running different VirtualBox from each other. In mine, there are more options. If you have installed from OSE source, then I think you need to RTFM again and go to where you compile and install the driver. If you have installed from a repository (you don't mention your distro) then you may have to download the driver module separately from your repo. In any case, the problem is that /dev/vboxdrv (i.e. the driver or kernel interface) is missing from your system, and it seems that your init.d script doesn't know how to make it.

I am using Mint. Mint provides a link to an installation program for VirtualBox. This is what I was using. Then when that didn't work, I went to the VirtualBox.org site and entered the command that they said would work:

apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 \
libhal-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
python2.5-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools libcap-dev \
libxmu-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
linux-kernel-headers

Here everything seems to go fine untill linux-kernel-headers with this message:

Package linux-kernel-headers is a virtual package provided by:
linux-libc-dev 2.6.27-11.31
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package linux-kernel-headers has no installation candidate

I don't know if this is the problem or what to do about it if it is. Thanks.

Did you try installing linux-libc-dev? I don't know anything about Mint, but if you have synaptic, run that and install the linux-headers package for your kernel.