Comments on: VirtualBox 7 on Linux Mint 21: A Complete Installation Guide

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:23:08 +0000

Thank you!!! Works

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:10:29 +0000

In reply to Leo. Haha, that was funny! You've got a great sense of humor, Leo. 😄

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:23:36 +0000

Thank you Bobby, you will forever look like all these three kings, and I’m the little fellow down in the corner seeking help <3

By: Dudley

Dudley — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:25:44 +0000

You’re going to get a lot more people coming here because the kernal update linux mint currently automatically applies breaks Virtualbox 6.1, posting it here to help search engines pick it up.
"ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Argument aWidth is invalid (must be aWidth != 0 && aWidth <= 32767)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0"
You’ll get this in your logs and your VM will die on startup. Remove Virtualbox 6.1 with “Apt purge” and then follow this guide and they will work again.
Thanks Bobby!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:17:05 +0000

The command in Step 1 did not complete for me at first. I eventually closed the terminal window. On the second attempt, I preceded your command with ‘sudo ‘ to be prompted for my password. Then I ran the command a second time without preceding it with ‘sudo “ and the command completed successfully. I’m a bit of a Linux noob, though. Maybe this will help someone else. I skipped Step 5, as I’m not sure I need the extension features yet. VirtualBox 7.0.20 is now installed on Linux Mint 21.3. I like that this version of VirtualBox uses the dark theme that I set in Linux. Thank you for the great tutorial. It is more straightforward than some others I read.

By: Sam Hardmeier, CH

Sam Hardmeier, CH — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:43:43 +0000

Hat gut funktioniert. Habe auch das Linux – mint. Die Virtualbox 6.1 funktioniert plötzlich nicht mehr. Stürzte einfach ab beim aufstarten. Dann habe ich Ihr Vorgehen nachvollzogen, und siehe da, es funktionierte ! Die alten virtuellen Installationen wurden übernommen. – TipTop.

By: Max Quartermain

Max Quartermain — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:47:03 +0000

Step 1 fails because http://www.virtualbox.org resolves to an IPV6 address which is not contactable. Adding -4 as an option to the wget command fixes it.

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 21:12:03 +0000

In reply to Martin. Hi Martin, Without being part of the vboxusers group, a user may lack the permissions needed for certain VirtualBox functionalities, such as having access to USB devices within the virtual machines. But more importantly, membership to vboxusers ensures the user has the necessary permissions to create, modify, and execute virtual machines without access issues. Greetings to Nederland! :-) Best, Bobby

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:47:47 +0000

Thanks Bobby for your very clear howto.
Usually I install things with the Software Manager. But VirtualBox 6.1.xx did not run on a practically new installed Linux Mint. All kind of dependency errors.
Updated Linux Mint today to Victoria.
Then tried your instructions and they worked! Nanolinux worked in seconds. 🙂
Did not do steps 5 & 6. For some reason step 5 is not needed (yet?). Will try later to install a Linux and check if there is a problem.
Can you explain why the user account should be part of the vboxusers group?
(Btw nice that this works via email and not logging in on Gmail or that kind of stuff.)
Thanks again and greetings from Nederland, Martin.

By: Can

Can — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:07:55 +0000

Thank you for the useful tutorial. All worked flawless. I had 6.1 installed and even after installing the extension pack the usb devices were not detected. Now with 7.0.12 the problem is solved. 🙂