Installing Virtualbox on Ubuntu… error message

Jono — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:37:32 +0000

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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