Comments on: How to install Virtualbox 2.2.0 in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

By: channa

channa — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:58:15 +0000

I will be installed in /usr/bin/VirtualBox. Go to your terminal and run
$ VirtualBox

By: bobob

bobob — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:31:52 +0000

I got this installed and it didnt fail or anything but i cant find it anywhere on my system i looked in “Applications” but it isnt there anyone else have the problem?

By: amar singh

amar singh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:31:47 +0000

can i install virtualbox os in my phenom x3 processor which has triple core,two gb ram n is of 2.12 ghz

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:34:24 +0000

yo instale windowws en ubuntu y trabaja muy bien de los recomiendo gracias a todos y hasta pronto

By: SoulSinner

SoulSinner — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:36:28 +0000

Err.. y my installation show me the 3.0 version..
Am i wrong here??
And im new to VBox, Can i use it on my originally installed xp OS???
Can someone show me how?

By: AliBaba

AliBaba — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:28:24 +0000

Found this thread only today, so my answer surely comes late …

@Grace: question 2 - there is a way to do that, but it is not recommended. Nonetheless I’m living with my dual boot without problems since a year now!
Use this as a starting point -> http://blarts.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/how-to-run-virtualbox-using-a-physical-partition-using-ubuntu-feisty-fawn/

It’s a bit tricky to do, but if you are able to install a dual boot PC, then you can also do this.

Enjoy!

By: Hogg

Hogg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:44:33 +0000

@Darg, thanks! That’s what I needed.

By: Darg

Darg — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:43:08 +0000

I cannot install it because of this:

Compilation of the kernel module FAILED!
VirtualBox will not start until this problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources were not found. Install them (the package name is probably linux-headers- whereby can be determined by ‘uname -r’) and execute

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

as root.

What shall I do?

Your grub menu was likely not updated. To resolve this try the following

sudo rm /boot/grub/menu.lst
sudo update-grub
reboot
retry the install

By: admin

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:14:44 +0000

If you don’t see virtualbox in application menu try to logout from that session and login back.

By: drueter

drueter — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:58:31 +0000

Instructions are great but should say that it is necessary to restart the system before Virtualbox will appear in Applications menu.

By: jcalmighty

jcalmighty — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:26:30 +0000

Thanks that worked. Now i just cant get the xp guest to update or download software…..
Thanks in advance

By: Damien Sticklen

Damien Sticklen — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:18:24 +0000

If you want to be able to access usb devices etc, make sure you are in the virtualbox group in /etc/group. I have dkms and virtualbox guest additions installed as well as the account added to /etc/group under virtualbox, and now I can access mine

By: conflict on upgrade

conflict on upgrade — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:26:25 +0000

quote:
trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 I get the message:
Error: Conflicts with the installed package ‘virtualbox-2.1?

Vladimir said:
apt-get remove virtualbox-2.1
end quote

Thank you, I was afraid to loose my Vbox configuration when unistalling Vbox 2.1 but I got the new version in the same configuration very smoothly.

Gingalone

By: jcalmighty

jcalmighty — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:29:24 +0000

Hi, running jaunty 9.04 host and win xp pro guest, but i cant get xp to load usb pen drives…
thanks in advance

By: Insanity

Insanity — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:12:15 +0000

If you install from the repository, there IS a difference. The one on the repository is the OSE version. Meaning you can’t share usb devices across guest operating systems, which I can’t live without.

So if you’d like to have this feature, then do it the other way. Don’t use the repositories.

Also, I’m pretty certain that none of the versions will update their selves. You have to manually do it, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t want some new update screwing up all my stuff.

By: Aimar

Aimar — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:28:03 +0000

Dan,
Thank you very much for replying, but I’ve done what you say and my computer doesn’t find it… I’m quite lost, but anyway I’ll try find the packages I need…
Thanks!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:41:13 +0000

Aimar,

From the terminal try executing this:

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

Then try installing VirtualBox again. I ran into the same error installing into Ubuntu 9.04 and that worked for me.

By: Aimar

Aimar — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:58:55 +0000

I cannot install it because of this:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

as root.

What shall I do?

By: Sagar

Sagar — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:57:30 +0000

I had installed Windows XP on virtualbox on Intrepid. The upgrade to Jaunty removed virtualbox but thankfully left the XP .vdi file as it is in my home directory. Now I installed the latest version of VirtualBox on Jaunty, but the windows XP on it doesn’t start .. says some hardware error ! Is there a way to upgrade the vdi file without losing the installation ?

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:50:17 +0000

apt-get remove virtualbox-2.1