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?

  • vortexal@lemmy.mlOP
    3·
    1 year ago

    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
      5·
      1 year ago

      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
        3·
        1 year ago

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

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      5·
      1 year ago

      virt-manager is just the GUI. I often use it to control remote servers, so I can see why it doesn’t install the actual libvirt system as well. Could do with a better warning and explanation, though, but that’s the case with so many Linux GUIs.

      You definitely don’t need to build anything from scratch. I believe apt install qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-bin libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clientsbridge-utils should pull in all dependencies you need.

      If you get prompted for passwords excessively, add your user to the libvirt group (either through the Mint GUI or the command sudo usermod -aG kvm $USER). After logging out and logging back in you shouldn’t be getting any permission problems.

    • JoshCodes@programming.dev
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.mlOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

            • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 year ago

              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?

              • vortexal@lemmy.mlOP
                11·
                1 year ago

                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.

                • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  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.