I tried looking into this myself but I couldn’t really find much about this error. The only solutions I could find didn’t work for me. The first one was to use mokutil but at the point where I was supposed to run sudo mokutil -- it gives me the error message “Failed to get file status, MOK.der” even though I did everything it told me to do. The other one was to disable secure boot and then run sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig' but even though it looked like it worked, I’m still getting the error message. I have re-enabled secure boot, so you don’t have to worry about that.
Is there something else I can try or does VirtualBox not work in Linux Mint for some reason?
if you just need software to set up virtual machines you might look into Gnome Boxes or virt-manager which don’t require external kernel modules like Virtuap Box to work
anyway these issues typically happen on Ubuntu based distros (like Linux Mint) because your linux kernel is to new for the Virtual Box version (or the Virtual Box version is simply too old)
So I tried virt-manager but it’s giving me an error message about not being able to connect to “libvirt qemu:///system” and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”, but I can’t figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn’t seem to be a guide on how to do that.
Yayy, I have the same problem.
Try a
sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtdI dont know how manual everything is in Mint
Also add your user to thr libvirt group
groupadd libvit sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USERJust FYI, if you want to enable and start, you can use
systemctl enable --now ....I’m currently installing virt-manager but I ran into a problem with Gnome Boxes where I’m trying to run a Windows XP virtual machine but I can’t figure out how to get files from my host to the guest. Apparently, I need some software to be running on the guest but the website that I need to download the software from doesn’t work in internet explorer and I obviously can’t just download it on the host and transfer it to the guest.
Yes this seems to be a Gnome Boxes Flatpak problem. I like that it works as a flatpak, but unsure if this can be fixed, I think its a known limitation.
Oh yes, the spice guest addition. This will be needed on every Spice VM
Try this bat script from Github
Or the program they are referring to
Ok thanks, I might try those later if I can’t get VirtualBox working.
I’ve used VirtualBox for years and only just tried virt-manager. I wish I had tried years ago, so much simpler and it is in my distro’s default repository.
I tried virt-manager but it’s giving me an error message about not being able to connect to “libvirt qemu:///system” and it wont let me install a virtual machine. I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”, but I can’t figure out how to install it. I think it wants me to build it from the source but there doesn’t seem to be a guide on how to do that.
On fedora its
sudo dnf install qemu qemu-kvm virt-managerVirt-manager alone is just the viewer, its also intended to be used for things like remote viewing. This would be an easy solution