Comments on Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

I don't need to know how to install it.  I need to know how to upgrade to it from the 2.2.4 version.

Well, it is easy. Just uninstall the old 2.2.4 and install the new 3.0, and problem solved. All the settings and virtual machines will happily continue to work as used to be under the old version.

I do use the following repo on Hardy, but also works with Jaunty and Interpid.

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free

One would need to install build-essentials in order to be able to compile the kernel module eh?

You were given all you need. Show some initiative.

but if you absolutely refuse to learn anything, then here and learn from this:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-2.2.4-47978

 Then isntall the new version as described above.

Thanks a million. This install worked perfectly on my machine. I uninstalled version 2.1.4 and installed 3.0. My virtual xp settings remained in tact.

start synaptic, search virtualbox, right click the entry, select mark for upgrade and apply an old timer would have to say, "This is just too easy!" Lillie

thanks a lot, wel done!

You misunderstand what I'm saying.  I need to know how to do it.  A walk through like the above tutorial.  Uninstall / reinstall doesn't mean jack to me on Linux.  What commands, etc..?

wow i just can't believe how rude people can be...can somebody out there breathe for me... 

Hi I removed Virtualbox 2.2 using synaptic , followed this how to and now I get this error in /var/log/vbox-install.log:

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.27-11-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/source.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:150: Warning: using /usr/src/linux as the source directory of your Linux kernel. If this is not correct, specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.
Makefile:158: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.24-19-generic) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.27-11-generic).  Stop.

Can anyone help with this error??

I suppose you must install linux-headears

For me :

uname -a

Linux necM350 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:29:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

So I do :

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.31-19-generic-pae

After you can do this :

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

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I installed VB3.0 but had to go back, it turns out that shared folders have a problem with xp guests on linux host. They are write-once. A File saved into a shared folder is saved with a Read-Only permission. VB is aware of this and apparently has a fix in the SVN (see http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4381) but the current .deb is still broken.

I found the solution to my issue here:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19557&p=86462#p86462

For some reason the latest kernel update 2-6-28-13 did not reflect in an updated menu.lst file in the /boot/grub directory. 

Once I updated menu.lst and resterted, the virtualbox kernel module compiled just fine. 

Enjoy!

I had the same problem, but the solution described is not available because of a bad URL.

Ron 

Perfect step-by-step instructions. Thank you for taking the time to show us another way of getting this done.

Just starting out Linux/Ubuntu OS, found your tutorial's step by step guide a great help. Quickly installed no messing.

 Thankyou

 Kind Regards

 Steve

 Rated 10/10

I just wanted to thank you for this clear set of instructions for installing VirtualBox non-OSE version. I installed the latest 3.0.12 version into Ubuntu 9.10 without issues. Thanks again!

Works also fine on Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). Just replace the jaunty in the deb-line for /etc/apt/sources.list with karmic and the result will be also a working VirtualBox 3.0. Thanks for the tutorial.

Having very little experience with Ubuntu I followed your instructions and had no problems.

Thanks,

Mike

Really useful topic, thanks.

Thank you so much for this. You are wonderful

This is wonderful, clear and consise instructions. Marvelous, just marvelous.

So good... works in ubuntu 10.04 too !

Congrats ....

Thanks so much. Pretty simple and fast.

stop working to 2%

works in Ubuntu 10.04