Issues Running Virtual Machines in Open Mandriva

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Hello,

Requirements:
I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:
OpenMandriva ROME 25.06

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE Plasma Version 6.3.4

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
I am having trouble running virtual machines on OpenMandriva. I have tried Virtual Machine Manager and VirtualBox, yet neither of them work.
It tells me "The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing ‘/sbin/vboxconfig’ as root.

I see a forum about this topic, however, the solutions gives a link that I cannot open: https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/virtual-box-not-working/1372/11

I asking AI about it, but it was telling me to download some kernel-level things that I didn’t fully understand, and I didn’t want to hurt my system. Any recommendations?

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That error message give incorrect information. This error usually means the version of VirtualBox is not in sync with the kernel version. As far as I know in ROME virtualbox-7.1.8-1 should work with kernel-desktop-6.14.2-3, I am fairly sure of this but I can not check at the moment as I am using Cooker which has different versions of both.

Or it could mean that the kernel modules have not been loaded. For instance if you install VirtualBox and then try to run it without rebooting the kernel modules will not have been loaded. You can try closing VBox and running this in terminal:

sudo modprobe vboxdrv ; sudo modprobe vboxnetflt ; sudo modprobe vboxnetadp

Then try again.

Note: For most users only sudo modprobe vboxdrv is really needed.

Another thing that trips up a lot of users are the Display settings. For me VBoxSVGA works but some users may find one of the other choices work. I believe this may be related to ones hardware.

You normally need to allow at least 2048 MB RAM, 4096 would be better if you can, and if you can 2 cpu’s though 1 should work OK.

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Thanks so much! I will try this soon and see if it will work.

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Thank you so much, It worked for me :grin:

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