Fired up virtualbox, tried to ‘start’ the newly created machine and got
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
but cannot find ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’
Any help appreciated.
This is just a stab in the dark But I had that when I tried to install a 64 bit image on a 32 bit system
Graeme
Could be it I suppose, I just installed from the repos.
Hopefully someone will be along to confirm this and point me to a 32 bit version as I couldn’t see one on the vbox website.
I don’t think I explained that very well. the Virtualbox version will be ok, what I meant wasis the the operating system you’re trying to install 64 bit
See what you mean, but it didn’t get that far.
I hit the start button and expected it to ask for a media source but got the error message instead.
Have you tried installing dkms from synaptic ?
It was installed from the repos at the same time as vbox .
When the dog wakes up I’ll have a look(she’s got her head on my lap snoring)
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Run a full system update … then REBOOT … then make sure you have build-essential, linux-headers-generic, and dkms installed:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic dkms
then if necessary reinstall virtualbox.
When update is run, at the end of the list is
W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
After reboot and running your code from above at the bottom of the list of operations completed
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_raring-security_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/multiverse i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_raring-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/restricted i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_raring-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/universe i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_raring-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
run update and again
W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Edit
Well all the above might be unrelated to VBox because I uninstalled and reinstalled it and now it seems to be working ok ( I know you wrote that Mark but I missed it.).
Got xp installed and running. Will have a play with it tomorrow now.
Ubuntu have taken down the “extras” repo for raring, which is causing those warning.
We can fix them if you want, but they’re probably not causing any problems.