Comments on: How to install Virtualbox 2.1.0 in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)/8.04 (Hardy Heron)

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:22:16 +0000

Wait, I’m gonna let you finish. I just wanted to let you know that VLC is one of the most loved packages of alllll time

Dale Kaup

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:58:46 +0000

Can’t wait to scope out this new version. As far as I’m concerned the OSE version works perfectly but still I know the update will be great.

Dale

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:04:06 +0000

Virtualbox is getting better and better. I just wish it’d run XP on my 512mb Dell Ubuntu 9.10 computer at work.

By: stam

stam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:05:33 +0000

@mattoid

sudo su
[give your password]
rmmod kvm-intel (use kvm-amd instead of kvm-intel if you have a amd processor)
rmmod kvm
exit

And then run again Virtualbox!

Hope it works!

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:56:44 +0000

Virtualbox just blows me away. Seriously a person could have a tiny OS like Damn Small Linux just to run virtualbox and run your main OS as a guest.

By: jayanramesh kombai

jayanramesh kombai — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:11:52 +0000

Followed your instructions-everything went flawlessly-GREAT IT WORKS.
Thank you.

By: mattoid

mattoid — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:28:17 +0000

ok. i’ve followed every step for the intrepid install, tried out all the suggestions from the comments but vbox still throws up a kernal error every time i try to start a virtual machine
the error

VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {e3c6d4a1-a935-47ca-b16d-f9e9c496e53e}

By: sandeep jakhar

sandeep jakhar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:35:26 +0000

working fine !!!!!!!!!
thnks…

By: Lewis Balentine

Lewis Balentine — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:45:40 +0000

I believe that there is a important step missing.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-(uname -r)

where uname -r returns the appropriate version information.

example:
root@krylon:~# uname -r
2.6.27-7-server
root@krylon:~# sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.27-7-server

This will save the step of having to go back and recompile the the vbox kernel module after it throws an error.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:20:52 +0000

Just upgraded 1.6 to 2.1 (2.1.2-41855_Ubuntu_hardy) with these instructions. My specs are:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.2" $ uname -a Linux __ 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
VirtualBox started once, upgraded my guest files, and now won’t start.
$ VirtualBox Qt FATAL: Cannot mix incompatible Qt libraries
One suggested solution (mv ~/.config/Trolltech.conf ~/.config/Trolltech.conf_broken) does not affect the problem.

Looks as though there are both libqt3 and libqt4 packages on my system. The qt4 things have only VirtualBox-2.1 as dependencies. libqt3-mt for me has many (kdbg, kdevelop, khexedit, ktorrent, …). Since these are more important than the new features of VirtualBox, guess what stays.

To get the virtualbox-1.6 app functioning again, assuming you have added the package repository as mentioned above, I had to remove three packages:
virtualbox-2.1
libqt4-gui AND libqt4-core (I think. whatever came down with the vb2.1 package)
and just reinstall:
virtualbox

It turns out that the upgrade to 2.1 backs up your machine .xml files. I restored my “upgraded” disks to the 1.6 compatable versions by copying the .bak to the .xml. For example:
$ cd ~/.VirtualBox $ mv VirtualBox.xml VirtualBox.xml_for2.1 $ cp VirtualBox.xml.1.3-linux.bak VirtualBox.xml $ cd ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/ExpDevXP $ mv ExpDevXP.xml ExpDevXP.xml_for2.1 $ cp ExpDevXP.xml.1.3-linux.bak ExpDevXP.xml
of course, your Machines// directory will depend on you names.

Hope this saves someone the time it took me to get through this..

By: Ubuntu beginner

Ubuntu beginner — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:25:04 +0000

Nick,
Thank you so much!! I just download the install from Virtual Box site instead of using the synaptic or the tutorial here. It works!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:11:09 +0000

I am also trying to update from 2.06 to 2.10/2.12 without having to reinstall the Win XP guest. Could someone be more explicit about what steps I need to take? Thanks.

By: Claude

Claude — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:46:22 +0000

Very promising tutorial. I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed (from download ~1 month ago, and searching for virtual box in the synaptic package manager for Virtual Box, I find ~ 30 files with 4 of them marked with Ubuntu icon, but none installed. Should I assume that these files represent an earlier version of Virtual Box? If per chance they are Virtual Box 2.10, should files be checked to install, or just the ones blessed by Ubuntu?
Thanks in advance.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:36 +0000

Oh. I also ended up just going to the Virtual Box site and downloading the install from there. But you can try the tutorial from this forum and see if that works as well.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:05:49 +0000

lpia packages are for Low Power Intel Architectures, like some laptops and most netbooks. You might just need to install your generic headers (if its part of your problem).

Step 1) From the System drop down menu go to Administration, then Synaptic Package Manager

Step 2) Click on Search and enter linux-headers

Step 3) You should then see a list of all the linux header packages. If you don’t you’ll just have to cycle down through all the packages and find them. Select all the generic headers, which are linux-headers-#.#.##-##.

For example - linux-headers-2.6.24-16

If you find that you are running a low power architecture and you’ll need the head packages with lpia at the end of the package name.

Example - linux-headers-2.6.24-16-lpia or lpiaco

Step 4 - Click Apply to install and then try to reinstall Virtual Box.

Also be sure to set Virtual Box in your Users and Groups

By: Ubuntu beginner

Ubuntu beginner — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:06:17 +0000

What are the lpia header packages and how do I install them?

By: Stobor

Stobor — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:45:37 +0000

If you want to use the opensource version of VirtualBox rather than the “personal use or evaluation only” version, you will need to build from source. Fortunately, there is a package customised for Ubuntu, so it’s pretty much just a matter of downloading the source package and pointing dpkg at it.

I’ve listed the steps which worked for me at http://opensource.stobor.net/vbox/ for anyone else who’s interested.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:23:40 +0000

Sorry,
I did end up figuring it out. I just needed to install all the lpia header packages.

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:35:37 +0000

WINE Is Not an Emulator W I N E repeat WINE I Not an Emulator

By: nick

nick — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:31:52 +0000

When I enter:
sudo apt-get update
I get:
W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry non-free/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Any Ideas on how to correct this?