转自:http://blog.163.com/excellent_2008/blog/static/3076015620132294284308/
Issue: Ubuntu 12.04安装Virtual box时error message包含:
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-generic. You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. No protocol specified No protocol specified Failed to open the X11 display!
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules * No suitable module for running kernel found [fail]
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 4.1.12 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new virtualbox-4.1.12 DKMS files... Building only for 3.5.0-25-generic Building initial module for 3.5.0-25-generic Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.5.0-25-generic (i686) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/make.log for more information. * 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.
apt-get remove virutalboxapt-get install virtualbox
重新配置内核.但是尝试后均失败.sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
Add one of the following lines according to your distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian natty contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny contrib non-free
The Oracle public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with
sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc
or combine downloading and registering:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
The key fingerprint is
7B0F AB3A 13B9 0743 5925 D9C9 5442 2A4B 98AB 5139 Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@virtualbox.org>
(As of VirtualBox 3.2, the signing key was changed. The old Sun public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here.)
To install VirtualBox, do
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.2
Note: Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. For Debian it is available in Lenny backports and in the normal repository for Squeeze and later. The dkms package can be installed through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:
sudo apt-get install dkms
What to do when experiencing The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG ... when refreshing the packages from the repository?
# sudo -s -H # apt-get clean # rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* # rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* # apt-get clean # apt-get update