let me preface this by saying I am a Noob and while fairly bold and confident with XP....Linux not so much. I tried to install VirtualBox from the Ubuntu repository. in Kubuntu 7.10. Install went smoothly and I could run Virtuabox but when I went to install XP under VirtulaBox I kept on getting the following error.
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}
I did some googleing and found that some people found this issue could be resolved when downloading and installing the .deb package directly from Virtualbox.org. I uninstalled the previous version and then I went to Virtualbox.org and after downloading the file to my desktop (not in root as I cannot login as root for some reason) and double-clicked to start install process. Everything seemed to go smoothly then I got an install message said install failed. Here are the details:
(Reading database ... 104520 files and directories currently install ed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-2.0 (from .../virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_Ubuntu _gutsy_i386.deb) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg: error processing /home/rob/Desktop/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_ Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko ', which is also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/rob/Desktop/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here.
Thank you!
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}
I did some googleing and found that some people found this issue could be resolved when downloading and installing the .deb package directly from Virtualbox.org. I uninstalled the previous version and then I went to Virtualbox.org and after downloading the file to my desktop (not in root as I cannot login as root for some reason) and double-clicked to start install process. Everything seemed to go smoothly then I got an install message said install failed. Here are the details:
(Reading database ... 104520 files and directories currently install ed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-2.0 (from .../virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_Ubuntu _gutsy_i386.deb) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg: error processing /home/rob/Desktop/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_ Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko ', which is also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/rob/Desktop/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.4-38406_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here.
Thank you!
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