Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu server
The following info took place on 03/30/2010 while SSH into Ubuntu 8.04 server and installing VirtualBox 3.1
This little howto was put together from bits-and-pieces of information i gathered while searching around along with two problems i ran into and how they where resolved.
- Add the "non-free" Vbox repo to our sources.list, the current Virtual Box in the repository is a bit dated.
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list |
Add the following to the bottom of the list, then save.
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
- Get Sun's public key...
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ sudo wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - |
- Update and Upgrade the server
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ sudo aptitude update name@machine:/$ sudo aptitude upgrade |
- Install the correct Linux Headers along with Vbox (v3.1)
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential virtualbox-3.1 |
During the install i received an error
* Modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
I ran the follow which fixed the problem.
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup name@machine:/$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start |
After that i tried to run the following to get alittle info about the Vbox host and received another error...
| Terminal |
| name@machine:/$ VBoxManage list hostinfo
Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.6 ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! |
So i opened up the /home/**USER**/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml file and edited the following line, changing 1.2-linux to 1.3-linux
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.2-linux">
Saved and now everything seams to be working good.
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