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?

  • JoshCodes
    3•7 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•7 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•7 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•7 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•7 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.

                • @[email protected]OP
                  1•7 months ago

                  I kind of wanted to be using the newest version but I’ll try the old version to see if it works.

                  • @[email protected]
                    0•7 months ago

                    6.1 is the newest version included in your OS. That’s just how Linux works.
                    Downloading newer versions from somewhere else is sometimes possible, but can lead to a lot of headaches, especially with packages that interact with the kernel.

                    If you notice you keep running into this issue and using the newest stuff is important to you, consider switching to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s the most beginner-friendly rolling release distro.