Comments on: Create virtual Machines Using Virtualbox in Debian

By: Naiden

Naiden — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:27:01 +0000

On Debian-based systems, the following command should install the required packages:

for VBox version >= 2.2:

apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 \
libhal-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
python2.5-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools libcap-dev \
libxmu-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
linux-kernel-headers

Source:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions

By: Velcurry

Velcurry — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:46:05 +0000

One small issue I ran into with my suggested updates .

when I ran

it saved

virtualbox-2.2_2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny_i386.deb?e=1244313784&h=25e607dd5a49f4107bdffb51f89933fc

renamed to virtualbox-2.2_2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny_i386.deb

I had to rename it with out the Hash .and then the rest of it worked fine

this could of been an error on my end but just thought id put this out there. thanks again.

By: Velcurry

Velcurry — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:41:13 +0000

You should update this to read

First you need to install the following packages

sudo apt-get install bcc iasl xsltproc xalan libxalan110-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential libcucul-dev libqt3-mt libxalan110 libxerces27

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.4/virtualbox-2.2_2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny_i386.deb

Install.deb file using the following command

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-2.2_2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny_i386.deb

But thanks for the tutorial

By: Emma Le Page

Emma Le Page — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:54:26 +0000

how can i get an image of imac for virtual box and vista for virtual box

By: bug-me-not

bug-me-not — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:27:21 +0000

Hi again! I am back to tell you that Virtualbox had just remove every host user from the audio group so I won’t have to print my crown for today !
By the way… it removed every user from every group !

By: bug-me-not

bug-me-not — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:51:35 +0000

I installed 1.3.8_Debian_Etch_x86.deb on debian lenny but removed and purged every file I can…
Sound is gone now. I did every thing possible to recover sound without any success.

By: fedex

fedex — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:26:46 +0000

Buenas, sabe alguien como habilitar el virtualbox para que lo puedan usar los usuarios?

By: trungkiensmile

trungkiensmile — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:52:38 +0000

@Eugene:
Seems there’s a project on installing ubuntu in Windows. You might want to start from this link: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338279
Hope it helps.
Trung Kien.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:08:47 +0000

This is more of a question. Can any Linux variant be installed and accessed from windows while windows is running without creating a unix partition and installing some variant of it. It might be a simulator or something like that. The reason why I ask is I thought this was it and a friend mentioned something like that some years back which he claimed he was using.

Any help and links to pages on learning shellscripts would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: Admin

Admin — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:30:59 +0000

here is the solution for this

Debian packages: If the installation of the VirtualBox_*.deb package was not successful because the compilation of the kernel module fails, it might not be possible to remove the package nor to install other packages as the pre-remove (prerm) script of the package (which is executed prior to package removing or upgrading) aborts with an error “(Kernel module not found)…fail!”. In that case do the following:

Edit /etc/init.d/virtualbox and change line 129 from ‘exit 1? to ‘exit 0?

Reinstall the virtualbox package by ‘dpkg -i ‘. An installation failure of this package is expected.

Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox.postinst and change line 39 from ‘exit 1? to ‘exit 0?

Execute ‘dpkg --configure --pending‘

The package should now be installed successfully. However, the kernel module is still not compiled. Before you will be able to execute VirtualBox you have to create a kernel module for your current kernel, as described in the User Manual(check the link provided at the end of the article)

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:11:07 +0000

Your precedure lacks some information, as my installation fails and I am somewhat a t a loss here. I use sid and a generic kernel. I installed
the kernel module under /usr/src/modules/vbox. I copied vboxdrv.ko module to /lib/modules/2.6.19.2M2K8/misc/vboxdrv.ko
I run depmod -ae. It appears that this did not take as the module does not show up upon reboot.
But here is the message I get when I install the .deb package:
Setting up virtualbox (1.3.2-17408_Debian_etch) …

Creating group ‘vboxusers’. VM users must be member of that group!

Starting VirtualBox kernel moduleFATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.6.19.2M2K8/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid argument
(modprobe vboxdrv failed)…fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
virtualbox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any suggestions?