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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.
{{tty|cmd1=sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list}}
Add the following to the bottom of the list, then save.
<nowiki>deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free</nowiki>

* Get Sun's public key...
{{tty|cmd1=<nowiki>sudo wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -</nowiki>}}

* Update and Upgrade the server
{{tty|cmd1=sudo aptitude update|cmd2=sudo aptitude upgrade}}

* Install the correct Linux Headers along with Vbox (v3.1)
{{tty|cmd1=sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential virtualbox-3.1}}

During the install i received an error 
'''<nowiki>* Modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.</nowiki>''' 
I ran the follow which fixed the problem.
{{tty|cmd1=sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup|cmd2=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...
{{tty|cmd1=[http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#id2535703 VBoxManage list hostinfo]

Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.6 
(C) 2005-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
All rights reserved. 

ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! 
ERROR: Error in /home/**USER**/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml (line 3) -- Cannot handle settings version '1.2-linux'. 
/home/vbox/vbox-3.1.6/src/VBox/Main/VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[420] (nsresult VirtualBox::init()) 
Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee <NULL>
}}

So i opened up the '''/home/**USER**/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml''' file and edited the following line, changing '''1.2-linux''' to '''1.3-linux''' 
'''<nowiki><VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.2-linux"></nowiki>''' 
Saved and now everything seams to be working good.

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