hey there, well what happend is that i just installed Ubuntu and then i installed Virtual Box.... When i try to do a virtual machine for windows xp
it goes to something like this:


VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and execute '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start' as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

its an error! how can i fix it?

Yep - you'll first need to load that kernel module.
modprobe vboxdrv
Or, as the error message suggests, execute the command "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start".
If you don't have that module (but you should), you should install it.

Have you looked for this package in your package manager?
you could try with
and see if anything turns up that resembles "virtualbox-ose-modules", then install it with
so that would be:

Let me know if that gets you anywhere.

edgar@edgar-desktop:~$ sudo apt-cache --search virtualbox
[sudo] password for edgar:
E: Command line option --search is not understood
edgar@edgar-desktop:~$ sudo apt-cache --search virtualbox
E: Command line option --search is not understood
edgar@edgar-desktop:~$



error

my apologies, it should be

Hi, just as a side note, the virtualbox ose version is for enterprise. (open source edition)

It does not support usb, and a few other things.

If you are installing for personal use then you may install the full version (non-ose), and enjoy.

My 2cents.

Regards, Glenn

My suggestion is to go to the virtual box download page and download the user manual that provides a step by step on how to install the kernal modules and everything else.

http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.6.0/UserManual.pdf