Major Issues with VirtualBox

Ok guys,

VirtualBox is being REALLY stupid. I have installed it but I get this error:

Then I uninstalled it and accidentally installed the commercial/trial version of VirtualBox. So I uninstalled that and reinstalled VirtualBox OSE...and now when I click on the icon to start it, nothing happens.

Why is this being so difficult, I thought VirtualBox was practically made for Linux, and to be easy at that?

 

It's stupid because it's a program.

Code:

# modprobe vboxdrv

If it doesn't load properly, then you might not have virtualbox-ose-modules installed. Also, you have to be a member of the vboxusers group to use VirtualBox.

Code:

# gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers

Replace USERNAME with your own.

 

Hey Arch, I just followed the instructions there and no love

am I supposed to reboot or anything after entering those commands into the terminal?

I have this module installed:
virtualbox-ose module for linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic

Edit: I had already added vboxusers, but I did the command anyways, it required a 'sudo' in order to work properly.

 

Did the terminal output anything when you entered the modprobe command, or did it just move to another line? No, you shouldn't have to reboot for it to work.

Try opening a terminal and running virtualbox through it, then post whatever errors it spits out here. Or have you already done that?

P.S. What distro are you running?

P.P.S. I forgot to mention: the VirtualBox GUI needs qt3 to work, so you have to make sure that's installed as well.

 

Excellent, I'll do this in the morning and report back, thanks for the help thusfar!

 

VirtualBox from the Sun Site is not Trialware...use that instead of the repo's OSE version. You want to print?

 

Yeah, that and I want to be able to use Office 2007 whilst in Linux.


So Odd...running from the terminal gets me past the point where the error showed up prior. Unfortunately I don't have my XP .iso with me at the moment, or I'd make sure it's fully functional (I can only assume that it is).

Thanks for the genious Mr. Zoid! I'd rep you more if I could, but alas...

 

Smile when you say that