Hi.
I want to install virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04. I downloaded virtualbox .deb file from its official website.
Here is the output of the installation :
As you can see, "modprobe vboxdrv" failed.
And when I run virtualbox, here is the output :
Please guide me how I can fix this issue?
Thank you
I want to install virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04. I downloaded virtualbox .deb file from its official website.
Here is the output of the installation :
Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Oracle VM VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a powerful PC virtualization solution allowing you to run a
wide range of PC operating systems on your Linux system. This includes
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OpenBSD and others. VirtualBox comes with a broad
feature set and excellent performance, making it the premier virtualization
software solution on the market.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.0.
(Reading database ... 384862 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack virtualbox-5.0_5.0.20-106931~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.20-106931~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
Setting up virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.20-106931~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
Adding group `vboxusers' (GID 129) ...
Done.
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS ...done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160523-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...And when I run virtualbox, here is the output :
Code:
$ virtualbox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (4.4.0-22-generic) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
$ sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS ...done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)Thank you