Kernel driver not installed

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Please help if you know what this means: Continuing my previous post, I ran the insaller again and this time my virtualbox was I think open already and I am getting this stupid error. What did I mess up. The error:

WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.

 You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

Waiting for VM “Whonix-Gateway-Xfce” to power on…
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine ‘Whonix-Gateway-Xfce’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine
whonix-installer-xfce: [ERROR]: Virtual Machine Startup Result: FAIL

  • The installer succeeded with download and import, but
  • failed to start the virtual machines (VMs).
  • The root cause for this issue is likely not the installer.
  • This issue would likely also happen if the user tried to manually start the VMs.
  • Refer to user documentation:
    httpsss://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox/Troubleshooting
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Please do as instructed by the installer.

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yo, its weird. I checked secue boot in bios was off. I just reinstalled the packages. then after restarting it just happns to work, lol man computers are funny

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Thanks for the report!

Wait. Enabling SecureBoot fixed this?

Usually people disabled SecureBoot.

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No, just checking that it was disabled did the trick. But I think what really solved was just rebooting my host (debian). I had also reinstalled those packages from the error, however they did not solve before the reboot. I dont know. I dont want to touch any configs anymore. I wanted to increase the storage size to 200Gb, because I dont want to prune any nodes (I believe they decrease privacy, could be wrong). But I aint touching Virtualbox today

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Related:

(Whonix is based on Kicksecure.)

(Please search forums / use separate forum thread in case of different topics such as related to virtual hard disk size.)

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Thanks, I read that, but the part where I have to boot from DVD throws me off, I think I will fuck things up.