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 --import MOK.der
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?
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 libvirtd
I dont know how manual everything is in Mint
Also add your user to thr libvirt group
groupadd libvit sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER
Just FYI, if you want to enable and start, you can use
systemctl enable --now ...
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Are you using a package manager or downloading everything from virtualboxs website? When I installed virtual box earlier today it all worked fine so that's why I ask.
I installed it through apt with just
sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0
. I also downloaded the deb file from their website but, at least when installed through apt, it just ignores it and uses the version from Mint's repository anyways.Edit: Because I just checked and you can't install it directly like that anymore, I first tried installing VirtualBox a few months ago, with an older version of Linux Mint. When I tried installing it several hours ago, it was with the deb file but for some reason apt still selects a different version when it actually installs it.
OK, why are you installing it from a deb file and not just from your repo?
Try that first.
How much of my comment did you read before replying?
I read that you installed a specific version months ago, but now installed it from a .deb file recently.
I'm asking why you don't just
sudo apt install virtualbox
now?I literally stated in my comment that you can't install it like that anymore. The reason why is because you get an error saying "E: Package 'virtualbox-7.0' has no installation candidate". This means that in Linux Mint, you have to install it via the deb file.
And I literally wrote in the comment above yours to install the version in the repo instead, with
sudo apt install virtalbox
.NOT
sudo apt install virtualbox-7.0
It's in the Ubuntu repository:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/virtualbox
Which Mint 21.2 points to according to the default sources.list:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ jammy partner
It's version 6.1, which is better than having no working Virtualbox.
I kind of wanted to be using the newest version but I'll try the old version to see if it works.
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