Installing Virtualbox on Ubuntu… error message

Whilst trying to install Virtualbox (full version) on Ubuntu Jaunty, the following error cropped up (installing using apt-get install virtualbox-2.2) 

* modprobe vboxnetflt failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why

This can easily be solved with the following commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Then reinstall Virtualbox to make sure that everything is working properly now:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox-2.2

That should produce no error messages now.

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  1. adam
    June 24, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    Jonathan, have read your post on another blog about a script that you have to setup a proxy server. Mind sending it my way?

    Thanks,
    Adam

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