Tuesday, February 11, 2014

I made the mistake of installing VirtualBox from the openSUSE repository, and after much pain trying to troubleshoot the error "This usually means that the vboxdrv module is not loaded. Try again after loading the module" (which pops up every time a virtual machine is launched), I remember the least painful way to install VirtualBox on openSUSE is to follow these instructions, adjusting the version numbers (both for openSUSE and for VirtualBox) accordingly.

As of the time of writing, download.virtualbox.org doesn't provide packages for openSUSE 13.1, however the packages for 12.3 installed just fine and seems to work so far using some pre-existing images, including different Windows versions.

Note: this issue appears to have gone away in OpenSUSE 13.2.

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