Help Setting Up VirtualBox on MINT 5.0
 

I have tried and tried and tried..I've done everything they wanted me to do..Still i cannot get any Virtual Machines to go. it keeps giving me this error.I have installed the generic device modules that i needed, even put it in a script to make sure it all went together but still nothing. Can anyone help please!!!!!!



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WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel,
which is likely virtualbox-ose-modules-generic.

Did you install it from repositories? Other people had the same problem on this forum by installing from repos. You can install new version from here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...hardy_i386.deb (that's for Ubuntu but should work on Mint)

If that doesn't help - post here as there are some other things you can try.

Your error message:
means that the vboxdrv device driver wasn't installed. Normally you need to install that package (virtualbox-ose-modules-generic), then compile it, and then install it and run "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start". It may be that your distro doesn't make "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv" in which case you'd try (as root) "modprobe vboxdrv".

Here is a link to install instructions for Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#he...78983c8188e9b0

If you google "install virtualbox on xxx" where xxx is your distro, you should find detailed instructions for that. I know there are good instructions out there for ubuntu.

Just as added info: I got so frustrated trying to figure out the Debian install (have custom kernel) that I installed from the VirtualBox source. Even then it took awhile to get it all going. Plus, looking at the link I provided above, that might be a bit out of date. :(

You are a genius...Thank you so much..you solved so many headaches in a matter of seconds!! Thats awesome!! I love this site!

Could you tell us what your problem turned out to be, and how you fixed it?

you were both right...i took both of your advices and combined them...it wasn't making the /dev/vboxdrv and no matter what i did it wouldn't read the install of the generic module. so i followed the link the other person gave me and installed that and it went without a hitch..Thank you both so much...Your awesome..