Issue with launching Whonix on Debian 13

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Hello.

Excuse the question, but I am new to using Debian, and I am sure I’ve made a mistake somewhere, but I cannot find it.

So, I installed it as per the instructions and during the installation all was working properly until it didn’t - I got this message:

whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [ERROR]: VirtualBox Installation Result: ‘FAIL’ - because kernel modules have not been loaded yet.

The VB and Whonix appear in my system, and VB launches with the Gateway and Workstation visible, but both do not open due to Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

Can you please advise what am I doing wrong?

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Something is preventing VirtualBox’s kernel module from loading. What does sudo systemctl status vboxdrv.service show? If it shows the service has failed, does sudo dmesg | grep -A20 vboxdrv show any error messages related to VirtualBox?

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