I have been using VMWare on Windows for a long time. But after a long wait, I moved to VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.10. I installed Ubuntu, 32 Bit, installed all available updates and installed Virtual Box. When I try to create a new Windows installation inside VirtualBox, I got the following error messages.
VirtualBox - Error
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP.
The virtual machine '**Windows XP**' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.
Details
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91}
2nd error dialogue
Virtualbox - Error in suplibOsinit
Kernal driver not installed (rc--1908)
Please install the virtualbox-dkmbs package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.
- I have already tried reinstalling VirtualBox.
- Google result seem to indicate the the problem happens due to Kernel updates.
Is there anyway I can get this working? I need this for malware analysis and if VirtualBox is going to crash on me all the time, then I won't be able to use Ubuntu for work.
Output to dpkg -l | grep virtual
server
rc virtualbox 4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1
x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
rc virtualbox-qt 4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1
x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
cute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.<p>
dpkg -l | grep virtual
? – jippie Apr 15 '12 at 08:11sudo modprobe vboxdrv
? – Takkat Apr 15 '12 at 08:52W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/oneiric/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
– Sunil J Apr 16 '12 at 06:14rc
, they should start withii
. Installation did not finish as intended. – jippie Apr 16 '12 at 06:35/etc/apt/sources.list
are o.k.. Don't forget to download and register the public key andsudo apt-get update
. – Takkat Apr 16 '12 at 09:19developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib deb-src http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib'
– Sunil J Apr 18 '12 at 08:04#
in front of the linedeb-src download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib
. Thensudo apt-get update
, downlaod the keywget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
, and installsudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1
. – Takkat Apr 18 '12 at 08:17