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?

  • @[email protected]OP
    3•8 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
      6•7 months 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
    • JoshCodes
      3•8 months 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.

      • @[email protected]OP
        1•8 months 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.

            • @[email protected]
              0•8 months 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?

              • @[email protected]OP
                0•8 months 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.

                • @[email protected]
                  1•8 months 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.