This installs GUI group accounts settings. Stop.Īt this stage we needed to install group accounts by installing ‘sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools’. Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel.

Removing old DKMS module vboxhost version 4.2.12Ĭreating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.12/source ->įailed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without The log file at /var/log/vbox-install.log had these entries: * Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong Or use the –kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it’s located Please install the linux-headers-3.5.0-27-generic package, * Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSĮrror! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.5.0-27-generic cannot be found. * Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules Now as suggested in above error message we tried running ‘sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’ and we were provided with another error message: So first we installed DKMS by running a command from terminal “Sudo apt-get install dkms”. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. Please reinstall the kernel module by executingĪs root.

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. While it showed no error in installation, but when run, it started to display following error: We installed virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Ubuntu~quantal_b on a machine with Ubuntu Gnome 64bit. VirtualBox from Oracle is a great application to run other Operating Systems within the native OS.

Virtualbox linux wihtout kernel drivers