Hello, I'm having trouble installing/using VirtualBox. Can anyone help me get
it working? I've gone through quite a few forum posts, and here are the steps
I have tried so far:
For the record, I am running Trisquel 5.5, 64-bit, with the 3.7.1-gnu kernel.
1. Install from Add/Remove Applications
Installs fine. When I try to run my VM, I get the error:
"Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as
root."
The package virtualbox-dkms is already installed, and running sudo modprobe
vboxdrv gives the error:
"FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found."
Based upon this post
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/problem-installing-virtualbox I then found my
kernel version with uname -a, which gave "3.7.1-gnu".
Checking sudo apt-cache search 3.7.1-gnu, I saw the header package to install
was "linux-headers-3.7.1-gnu". I attempted to install it, but it was already
installed.
The last thing that post suggested was starting the service before running
VirtualBox, so I tried sudo service virtualbox start. This failed on the step
"No suitable module for running kernel found"
The next thing I tried was installing the newest version from Oracle *shivers
in disgust*
2. Installing newest version from Oracle
Following the instructions here
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads I added deb
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib to my
/etc/apt/sources.list
Got the key, added it, ran sudo apt-get update, and installed
"virtualbox-4.2". This removes the previously-installed VirtualBox files.
Lots of output to the terminal, highlight is:
"Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.7.1-gnu (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.6/build/make.log for more information.
Failed, trying without DKMS
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules
Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong"
In both of the log files it tells me to look at, the following line is
present:
"include/uapi/linux/types.h:4:23: fatal error: asm/types.h: No such file or
directory"
Also, in the /var/log/vbox-install.log file, there is this:
"ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."
But I'm not sure what to do with that, if that's even worth doing. At any
rate, the install failed, and VirtualBox in this case cannot be run
(obviously).
And that's where I'm at! Any help you can provide would be great. I'm happy
to answer any questions, as well. Thanks!
