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
      6·
      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
        4·
        1 year ago

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

    • 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.