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Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu This tutorial shows how you can install InnoTek's VirtualBox on a Ubuntu desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show both ways.

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Thanks for this nice tutorial!

One thing you forgot is to add the user to the vbox-group.

For me the tutorial did not work exactly. I was able to start vbox but I could not start a virtual machine. [I always got VBox status code: -1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE)]

Reinstalling with dpkg -i /tmp/VirtualBox_1.3.8_Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb solved this. 

By: Anonymous

To fix your issue, simply 

modprobe vboxnetflt
echo vboxnetflt >> /etc/modules

By: Anonymous

I was trying to install the open source version and the http link does not work. Any suggestions??   

svn co http://virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox

By: Anonymous
By: Anonymous

It work for me. I just changed the virtualbox version for the latest. Thanks

By: Maya

I got an error Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP.

Virtual machine 'Windows XP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup. when trying to start the virtual machine.

 Also,

 Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)


Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.

 

 PLease help.

By: Anonymous

it says permission unavailaible when i try to change or add somethin :/

By: Anonymous

hi guys please on the last tip of changing permission I don't find the file 40-permissions.rules instead I find on that directory the following files 70-persistent-cd.rules  70-persistent-net.rules  

By: rizkyghozy

how to share connection ubuntu to virtualbox ???