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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?

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[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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)

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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
[–] aksdb@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

Just FYI, if you want to enable and start, you can use systemctl enable --now ....

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok thanks, I might try those later if I can't get VirtualBox working.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

virt-manager

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.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming that I'm supposed to download "libvirtd", but I can't figure out how to install it.

Try sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients in the terminal and rebooting the system.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

It stated that they were already installed so I went through the process of re-installing them and rebooting the computer, which seems to have fixed the problem. I wont really be able to test it much right now because of how late it is for me but I was able to at least start the installation for Windows XP.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

On fedora its sudo dnf install qemu qemu-kvm virt-manager

Virt-manager alone is just the viewer, its also intended to be used for things like remote viewing. This would be an easy solution

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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