Trying to create a win7 virtual box

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But this happens:

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Would anyone know what to do, I do not know too very much about terminal, so please be patient. Running Ubuntu 12.04 64x AMD.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '14 at 19:33

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Open Terminal and (as it says in the error message) run sudo service vboxdrv setup.

The reason you see this error is because the kernel was recently upgraded, but the VirtualBox driver was built for the older kernel (which you are no longer running). Normally, dkms automatically recompiles any modules for newer kernels, so you don't have to do it, but (like me) it's not happening. Make sure dkms is installed (sudo apt-get install dkms).

answered Feb 22 '14 at 19:33

saiarcot895

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tried to run sudo service vboxdrv setup but got vboxdrv: unrecognised service
Screenshot from terminal: http://imgur.com/rhCV4Hj
– BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 19:41
It seems you have the version that is in the main Ubuntu repos. In that case, follow the solution here. – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 19:44
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no suitable module for running kernel found after sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms should i continue with sudo modprobe vboxdrv anyways? – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 19:50
No. You need to install the headers for the current version. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic. This will also automatically install headers for future kernels. – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 20:12
Dont think it worked, http://imgur.com/nqPJ5vI – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 20:15
Well, that just backfired on me. Try sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic-$(uname -r) – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 20:19
No, that should be a literal uname -r. What uname -r does is print the kernel version that you are currently running. You can test this by running the command separately. – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 20:30
couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-generic-3.8.0-35-generic' – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 20:31
My bad. Get rid of the first generic, so that your final command looks like sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r). – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 20:46
that looks as if that works, now move on to sudo modprobe vboxdrv? – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 20:50
Yes. That shouldn't return any error. The second command might return an error, but you can ignore that. – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 21:02
First command: FATAL: Module Vboxdrv not found. – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 21:07
Lowercase vboxdrv? – saiarcot895 Feb 22 '14 at 21:23
yeah, lower, sorry – BigDoge230907 Feb 22 '14 at 21:34

Trying to create a win7 virtual box

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