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Old 10-11-2015, 06:08 AM   #1
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Trying to run virtualbox on kali 2.0


I try to run virtualbox on kali2.0.But showing this warming message " The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64."
How do I fix it??
 
Old 10-11-2015, 06:25 AM   #2
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Running VirtualBox on Kali seems a little odd to me, especially when you can't interpret an error message that spells out the solution to you, however, I think the following command (as root) ought to install the required package:
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apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Quite how you will proceed from there and whether VirtualBox is of much use on a distribution aimed at Linux experts to carry out penetration testing only I cannot say.

Last edited by 273; 10-11-2015 at 09:44 AM. Reason: Correcting sentence.
 
  


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