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Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on Debian 11
I have been working with Debian 11 and running docker on it to host a few applications at home. As per best practice, I setup a virtual machine to test configs and updates first before deploying it to my production infrastructure. In this article I will show you how to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions on a Debian 11 virtual machine. The Virtual Box Guest Additions makes features such as copying and pasting between the host OS and virtual machine as well as running the virtual machine in full screen. This article has a good write up on what the Guest Additions provide you. I used this article as…
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv
I created a new VM in Virtualbox on my Pop_OS! machine to install Rocky Linux but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine: A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in this post. Thanks to Ali Razmdideh for the answer. I’m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly. From terminal: sudo apt update sudo apt install –reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms sudo modprobe vboxdrv I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.
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VirtualBox – Invalid settings detected when trying to add a Host Only Adapter
Been playing with a few VM’s again today and run into trouble when I tried to add a Host Only Adapter in VirtualBox. The below video shows you how to enable the option to add a Host Only Adapter in Oracle’s VirtualBox.
