Discussion between saiarcot895 and Heihachi

2:21 PM

i cant list all vms without sudo: vboxmanage list vms Shows nothing, but when i try this: sudo vboxmanage list vms It shows all vms. I've installed virtualbox with following command: sudo apt-get install virtualbox Is that normal behavior?

saiarcot895

Probably not, especially if you created the VMs under your own user account (you didn't launch VirtualBox with sudo) and the VMs are in your VirtualBox VMs folder.

Heihachi

my VirtualBox VMs folder is under: /root/VirtualBox VMs

saiarcot895

That's the problem. That folder is owned by root and you need sudo to see anything in the folder.

Heihachi

How can i install virtualbox as non-root user?

saiarcot895

That's not the issue. The issue is that you likely used sudo virtualbox to launch VirtualBox, and so the VMs are in the root's home folder. Also, just to check, what user are you logged in as?

Heihachi

2:21 PM

yes, i've used sudo virtualbox because if i run just: virtualbox - when i close virtualbox it throws many errors in CLI. And i am logged as "alexander" (that's my username)

Hello, thanks for helping me

saiarcot895

You're welcome

What are the errors when you run virtualbox under your username?

Heihachi

let me install it again 1 minute

* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules * No suitable module for running kernel found
[fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.

when i am installing virtualbox i am getting that error

can i ignore that

That's the errors i get after launching virtualbox without sudo: i.snag.gy/M2Q9Z.jpg

saiarcot895

Those errors are just warnings from Qt, and you can ignore them.

Heihachi

what is Qt by the way?

saiarcot895

As it is, those are related to the GUI side

Heihachi

2:27 PM

can't i turn them off?

saiarcot895

Short version: Qt is a cross-platform GUI (and other things) C++ library.

Heihachi

well, but they are very annoying :)

what about: * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules * No suitable module for running kernel found
[fail]

is that ok?

saiarcot895

You can probably use virtualbox 2&>/dev/null to discard the error output.

For the second error, no, that's not normal

Heihachi

can you advice

best method of installation virtualbox on ubuntu 14.04?

i thought one from native repository would be ok

saiarcot895

There's a command to compile the virtualbox modules, but I don't remember the command. Let me check.

Heihachi

2:29 PM

are there any packages ready to use?

saiarcot895

They should work.

Run sudo service vboxdrv setup.

Heihachi

ok let me reinstall everything from the ground

in order to remove everything related to Vbox now

i have to run sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-*

right?

saiarcot895

If you are using the ones in the main Ubuntu repo, run sudo apt-get remove virtualbox.

Heihachi

well

can't you try to install virtualbox from ubuntu repo and see if you get similar errors while installing?

saiarcot895

I had virtualbox installed some time back, but don't use it much. (I moved to KVM.)

Heihachi

2:33 PM

you had virtualbox from ubuntu repo?

saiarcot895

yes

Just to check do you have linux-headers-generic installed? (Run apt-cache policy linux-headers-generic to find out.)

Heihachi

sec

linux-headers-generic:
Installed: 3.13.0.34.40
Candidate: 3.13.0.34.40
Version table:
*** 3.13.0.34.40 0
500 http://mirror.neolabs.kz/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://mirror.neolabs.kz/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.13.0.24.28 0
500 http://mirror.neolabs.kz/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

saiarcot895

ok, looks good

Heihachi

can i ignore that error while installing virtualbox?

seems like everything works

saiarcot895

The invoke-rc.d error?

Heihachi

2:40 PM

yes

saiarcot895

If everything seems to work, then I suppose so, but run sudo service vboxdrv setup just o be sure.

*to

Heihachi

let me run it

alexander@SuperPC:~$ sudo service vboxdrv setup
vboxdrv: unrecognized service

saiarcot895

hang on, I'll be offline for 10 minutes

Heihachi

saiarcot895

2:56 PM

When you were installing virtualbox, was there any output like the following?

vboxdrv:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.13.0-34-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetadp.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.13.0-34-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetflt.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation

Heihachi

yes i had that

saiarcot895

Then you're fine

The invoke-rc.d fail message is expected since you didn't have the kernel modules yet.

Heihachi

nice thanks

post an answer i will accept it

saiarcot895

3:14 PM

Done

Heihachi