Comments on: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

By: Hashimoto Okeda

Hashimoto Okeda — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:06:09 +0000

Well, virtual-box for Ubuntu doesn’t work, ‘cuz that has a conflict with the kernel from hardy heron …

We’ll be waiting a new update from ubuntu or virtualbox. Now, you can install virtualbox in Debian or Suse, without any problem …

By: enverhoxha

enverhoxha — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:51:18 +0000

I cannot make Virtualbox work in Ubuntu 10.04 (upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04). I tried both with Virtualbox OSE from Package Manager and Virtualbox 3.2 downloaded from the Virtualbox site (32 bits version, as my OS). Installation is OK, but when I try to run it, I get an error message:
Error in home/…/.virtualbox.xml (line3) — cannot handle settings version ’1.2-linux’.
Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×80004005).
Got an idea?

By: Bobby Jamison

Bobby Jamison — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:32:29 +0000

@Chickenorshrimp Yeah, I followed those instructions to the letter. Still does not work.

By: Jigar

Jigar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:29:33 +0000

Hello..
i m being asked to enter the CD of ubuntu 9.04…
and i have already installed 9.10..
what should i do??

By: Chickenorshrimp

Chickenorshrimp — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:16:13 +0000

It ran perfectly. I removed, then followed your steps again. Went without a hitch. Thank you so much

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:58:15 +0000

If you read the error, it should tell you that you already have VirtualBox installed using the -OSE version (Open Source Edition). The two can’t be installed at the same time, so you’ll need to remove one before installing the other.

Try sudo aptitude remove virtualbox-ose and then try to install the other package.

By: Chickenorshrimp

Chickenorshrimp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:30:42 +0000

Also, the installer now has the error:

Error: Conflicts with Installed package virtualbox-ose

Dont know if that makes a difference. Thanks

By: Chickenorshrimp

Chickenorshrimp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:29:20 +0000

Hello,

I’ve just downloaded ubuntu, and I’m loving it. However, I tried following you steps to install virtual box but I’m stuck. First, I tried downloading straight from the site and running the installer, but received an error message (I cant remember what it was). So I found your page, and followed the directions. The first command returned and “ok”. The second is where I think something went wrong. This is what I put in followed by it’s response:

: sudo aptitude install virtualbox-3.1
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “virtualbox-3.1″
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “virtualbox-3.1″
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 212 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done

And finally, I ran your last line of code:

sudo gpasswd -a curtis vboxusers
gpasswd: group ‘vboxusers’ does not exist in /etc/group

And being way out of my league on this stuff, I thought I would ask for help. Anything you could do would be appreciated. Thanks