How to install sun virtual box 3.0.8 on 64 bit ubuntu linux?

Answer

Goto virtual box linux downloads page http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads and download the .deb file that is suitable for your processor (x86 or 64bit) and the version of your ubuntu.

Right click on the downloaded .deb file and choose "Open with GDebi Package Installer"

Click on the Install Package button. At this point it will install virtual on your ubuntu machine.

Now an menu entry will be added to Applications->System Tools->Sun VirtualBox

If the menu entry doesn't exists, just logout and login back, it will showing up correctly.

answer by oid4a4455943...
19 weeks 6 days ago

Run the following in a terminal
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

- Visitor 19 weeks 6 days ago

It worked. But after the reboot got the error

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

- Visitor 19 weeks 6 days ago

Answer

Please do the following for automatic virtual box install or upgrade

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free

Download the sun public key from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc and add using
sudo apt-key add sun_vbox.asc

and now install virtual box using

apt-get install virtualbox-3.0

This will install the latest virtual box 3.0

answer by Visitor
19 weeks 6 days ago

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